Lettori One Step Closer to Victory Over Italian Discrimination
FOR YEARS THEY have been working alongside their Italian colleagues, teaching English and other languages to classes sometimes numbering 150, earning a fraction of the Italians’ salary and enjoying none of their perks. Successive court victories in their long campaign have only brought further discrimination against them, and in dozens of cases suspension or dismissal. Foreign university teachers in Italy finally got something to celebrate in February 2004 when the European Commission asked the European Court of Justice to fine Italy nearly 310,000 Euros ($325,000) per day because of the discrimination against them. It is only the third time that […]