Were Pisa workers right to block weapons for Ukraine?
The Italian union USB (Unione Sindacale di Base, Grassroots Workers’ Union) says that its members at Galileo Galilei airport in Pisa have refused to load weapons for Ukraine. The union has called for air traffic control workers to also participate in blocking the shipment of weapons, and for a demonstration at the airport. It says the workers were lied to about what was in the cargo, told it was humanitarian aid. What is positive is the workers’ militancy, their willingness to use industrial action as a political weapon and their exercising of distrustful oversight and controls over the...