The Italian culture ministry is making moves to classify museums and historical sites in the country as “essential services,” limiting workers’ rights to strike, and complicating already tense relations between the organization and union workers.  “It is a question of whether the strike call responds to the need to protect workers, or if it is nothing but the continuation of an arm wrestle between the unions and the government over culture, to the detriment of consumers,â€Â Roberto Alesse, the president of the Commissione di Garanzia per gli Scioperi, which acts as arbitrator between the unions and the government, said of recent clashes between the sites.
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