Throughout Italy on Thursday, transportation and civil employees spent several hours protesting a new plan by the Italian Junta In Charge to lower taxes and raise retirement age to 50. Workers took as much as three hours in the middle of the day to stop working and gather in piazzas in every major city in a loosely organized protest of the proposed new policies.
 
"We are raising our voices to tell the bastards in government that we will not stand by and let them trample our rights without protest." Said Giovanni Brazzaccioccicci, a member of the powerful transportation worker's union U.I.O.I.M.L.D.S.R.O.L.

Despite the heartiest efforts of the disgruntled workers, however, the net result  of the protest turned out to be an increase in man hours on a scale which Italy has not seen since the mid sixties.