ITALIAN STRIKES
Doctors To March (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) ROME, Feb. 14. Several thousand State hospital staff doctors plan a protest march in their white ooats through Rome today. The doctors came out on stroke, leaving their hospitals staffed for emergency only. The doctors ha ve been up. set by Parliament’s failure to enact a proposed law that would guarantee them job security until they reach 85.
Medical school professors and students, looking out for the careers of young doctors, have fought against a rigid job-security clause. The result earthier this month was a series of strikes by various medical groups favouring one position or the other. Another part of the Dtalten medical profession responded to • strike appeal today. Associations representing 22,000 pharmacists, who work in chemists* shops but do not own them, asked for a demonstration in a Rome square.
The non-owner pharmacists say they are caught in an economic squeeze because they have full university degrees but must work like
non-professional men for Other pharmacdste. They want changes in Government laws dealing with the administration of phasmacieß.
Italy's 44,000 miners came out on a 24-hour strike today over wages and provisions in contract negotiations. They have staged sporadic strikes for weeks.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30058, 16 February 1963, Page 4
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