Opera workers announce premiere strike

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 27 - Opera and symphony workers including singers, musicians and other staff on Friday said they would stage strikes at the premieres of every coming production starting in November to protest the failure to validate a national contract signed November 30 last year.
    The sector branches of the Big Three trade union federations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, recalled that "the contract expired about twenty-one years ago and the workers, despite their high technical, administrative and artistic professionalism, receive wages that have become unfair". (ANSA).