[ Ссылка ] Public sector workers in Italy have staged an eight-hour strike against the new austerity bill, now in the final straight of its passage through parliament.
While the government tries to do its bit to save the euro, unions have been on the warpath; protesting again outside parliament against measures they see as unfair.
"Our salaries are frozen. It's as if they'd been cut, what with the rising cost of living and new taxes: it all falls on our shoulders," said one woman among the demonstrators.
