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Pierpaolo Bombardieri, the secretary
general of the UIL trade union, told a big rally in Rome's
Piazza del Popolo square that the joint show of force with the
CGIL was the best response to the government's injunction
curtailing the general strike it is staging on Friday.
"(The crowd in) this square is the democratic response of people
who suffer, who have paid to be here (by foregoing wages to
strike)," Bombardieri said.
"It is a democratic response to institutional bullies.
"It is necessary to respect workers".
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