sciopero

: About once a month the public transportation system has a "sciopero" which is a pre-planned, one day strike that seems to serve little purpose other than a a release valve the government created to keep the public from complaining too much.

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In grocery stores, dried pasta prices are some 25% higher than in the past year, an increase that provoked the planning of a “sciopero della pasta” or pasta strike.

2007 August archive at eternallycool.net 2007

In grocery stores, dried pasta prices are some 25% higher than in the past year, an increase that provoked the planning of a “sciopero della pasta” or pasta strike.

Basta Pasta! at eternallycool.net 2007

In grocery stores, dried pasta prices are some 25% higher than in the past year, an increase that provoked the planning of a “sciopero della pasta” or pasta strike.

2007 August 30 archive at eternallycool.net 2007

The trouble has always been to get all sorts of labor to join in the universal strike, but in the Italian _sciopero_ of four years ago the miracle was wrought from one end of the peninsula to the other.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

At night the labor unions met, and the _sciopero_ was proclaimed as an expression of the popular indignation; but the police had been left with the victory.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

But it would be hard to say how far and how deep the _sciopero_ went.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

Then, suddenly, we knew that we were in the presence of that Italian conception of a general strike which interprets itself as a _sciopero.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

I tafferugli sono scoppiati dopo che martedì un gruppo di 300 tunisini aveva cominciato lo sciopero della fame per protesta contro il trasferimento di 107 loro connazionali a Roma, in vista del rimpatrio coatto.

timesofmalta.com 2009