{"id":39429,"date":"2026-05-29T17:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/italy-is-engulfed-by-protests-and-transport-disruptions-during-the-nationwide-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:56:21","slug":"italy-is-engulfed-by-protests-and-transport-disruptions-during-the-nationwide-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/italy-is-engulfed-by-protests-and-transport-disruptions-during-the-nationwide-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy is engulfed by protests and transport disruptions during the nationwide strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_f5eea029957ca2aa4133d20ee2fde4f5.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Protests and transport disruptions swept across Italy today during a national general strike organized by trade unions to protest rising cost of living, job insecurity and increased military spending, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>Marches and rallies were planned in several cities, including Rome, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Turin, Palermo and Catania. The strike was called by several grassroots labor unions, including CUB, SGB, SI COBAS and USI, along with pro-Palestinian organizations in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters demanded higher wages and pensions, a ban on evictions and precarious employment, and protested what organizers called &#8220;the high cost of living caused by the wars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The groups also condemned the &#8220;ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and Lebanese&#8221; and demanded that Italy suspend political and trade relations with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s state-owned railway group FS said a special strike by rail workers began on Thursday evening and will continue until Friday evening, affecting train services across the country.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests and transport disruptions swept across Italy today during a national general strike organized by trade unions to protest rising cost of living, job insecurity and increased military spending, Anadolu reports. Marches and rallies were planned in several cities, including Rome, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Turin, Palermo and Catania. The strike was called by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-39429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39431,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39429\/revisions\/39431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}