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Italian flight attendants strip down to protest working conditions

The content originally appeared on: CNN (CNN) - Italy's new national airline, ITA Airways, took to the skies last week, but all is not well on the ground of Italian aviation. Former Alitalia flight attendants protested this week against job losses and pay cuts in a particularly Italian way - by taking their clothes off. At the Campidoglio - the center of power in Rome for around 2,000 years and whose main square was redesigned by Michelangelo - about 50 […]

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