Gucci design staff strike in protest at plan to relocate to Milan
by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6GPN6)
About 50 workers take part in action, claiming move from Rome would be tantamount to collective dismissal
About 50 Gucci employees in Italy have gone on strike in protest against plans to relocate a significant part of its design studio team from Rome to Milan in what they claim is a mass redundancy in disguise".
Gucci, which is owned by the French-based luxury goods group Kering, announced in October it would move 153 of its 219 design employees from the Italian capital to Lombardy city.
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