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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...

University of Bari Students Back Lettori Against Rector

by Domenico Pacitti OVER 650 ANGRY students from the faculty of foreign languages and literature at the University of Bari in southern Italy have petitioned the rector to reinstate their original language teachers..

Lettori Win Again But Fear Italian Houdini Tactics

by Domenico Paccitti SOME 1,500 FOREIGN-language lecturers, or lettori, who teach their mother-tongue in over sixty Italian universities recently had their fourth job discrimination case against the Italian government upheld.

From Italy with Litigation: An Interview With David Petrie

by Michael P. Gerace David Petrie, who is a 50-year-old lecturer at the University of Verona and Chair of ALLSI (which, in English, is the Association of Foreign Language Lecturers in Italy), has been on a long crusade for the rights of foreign lecturers in...

How Do You Say “$319K per day” in Italiano?

by Henry Rodgers Lettori Litigation in Europe European Court of Justice (ECJ) : Based in Luxembourg, the ECJ is the pinnacle institution of the European Union with supremacy over all.

Letters to the Editor

“Big Tent” Organizing in Canada I was pleased to see the article on Canadian organizing and the “big tent” strategy in the latest issue of the magazine (“In Canada, the.

Italian Lecturers Cross the Rubicon in Their Fight for Equal Pay and Long-term Employment Contracts

by Henry Rodgers "The European Commission asks that the Court of Justice impose on the Italian Republic a penalty payment of EUR 309,750 for each day’s delay in complying with the judgement of the Court in Case C-212/99, from the day on which the Court...

From Italy with Litigation: An Interview With David Petrie

by Michael P. Gerace David Petrie, who is a 50-year-old lecturer at the University of Verona and Chair of ALLSI (which, in English, is the Association of Foreign Language Lecturers.

Letters to the Editor

Lettori Win Again But Fear Houdini Tactics The information necessary to disprove the claims in David Petrie's (Jan/Feb 2002) response to Domenico Pacitti's "Lettori Win Again But Fear Italian Houdini.

Letters to the Editor

The Rollercoaster of Remediation Ms. Jennifer Bradner's "The Rollercoaster of Remediation" obviously comes from a good heart, but everything in my 20 years of teaching (tenured and adjunct) tells me she's dead wrong. Renaming remedial courses so that they sound like "real" college courses is not going to...

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