Only Five Fiat Workers Show Up for Ronaldo Protest
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A strike called by a small union at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. to protest the purchase of Cristiano Ronaldo by Juventus Football Club SpA became viral news on social media last week. Only five workers showed up at the protest on Monday though.
Turnout for the strike amounted to 0.3 percent of the 1,700 workers at the first shift of the Melfi assembly plant in southern Italy, the first of a two-day protest organized by the USB union. The labor group called the strike because it found “unacceptable that, while FCA workers continue to make huge economic sacrifices, the company spends hundreds of millions of euros on the purchase of a player," the union said last week.