That will scarcely impress workers who, the same day, heeded a call by the biggest and most militant of Italy's trade union federations, the CGIL, to hold a national one-daystrike.
The next day, he launched a pre-emptive strike against the bloated federal budget, noting that some recipients of federal farm subsidies are millionaires who no longer need relief.
With a lucky strike you can make enough money to live for two or three years, but of course that lucky strike is so rare that at the end of the day you are better off working in the field.