After several years of struggle within the union this nucleus organized a
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COBAS at Alfa Romeo that was elected by 2,000 workers.
It has been recognized as a representative of the workers and has its own offices within the factory. It is a body that has developed a series of initiatives opposed to that of the national union structures -the CGIL, the Confederation of Free Italian Unions (CISL) and the Union of Italian Labor (UIL). It has shown itself capable of organizing plant-wide strikes around wage demands, against lay-offs and political firings.
Over the last few months, some COBAS delegates, a majority of whom have a background in the far left, have,
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together with some militants of the exPCI, founded a factory section of the Party of Communist Refoundation (PCR). A COBAS leader who had been fired for political reasons was a candidate on the PRC ticket for the Milan district in the April elections. She was elected to parliament thanks to the support of the workers from Alfa Romeo and other factories in the Milan area in spite of the fact that the party did not place her at the head of the
This victory constituted a challenge to FIAT's offensive and the basis for an opposition to the bosses' offensive throughout the country. * new network of highways connecting Seville and Baza, which will accentuate the administrative role of Seville.