By February 1919, the federation of Italian metal workers had successfully received a contract permitting these commissions in their factories.
[5] In France in January 1936, the PCF, a Stalinist communist organization spurred the creation of a coalition of radicals called the "popular front".
This change in power was spurred by a massive general strike in the years preceding where thousands of factories had been occupied by French workers to ensure said democratic governance.
[6] During a period of civil unrest in France in the 1960s, student protests were joined by factory occupations and strikes by French workers.
After further political negotiation and action through the years that followed, and unsatisfactory changes in policy coupled with increasingly educated and aware workers, the series of massive strikes broke out in 1968.
The autumn of 1969 is considered the climax of these strikes and they continued through the early 1970s resulting in significantly improved conditions for Italian workers.
The 4-week long work-in was the result of a dispute between Harco owners and workers on company sacking and rehiring practices during low production periods to save money.
During 1973, a close of parliament and essential dictatorship by the president created unrest and the leftist union called for a general strike and occupation of factories.
See LIP (company) During the Argentine uprising of the early 2000s, there was a complete takeover of the Zanon tile factory in Argentina.
[9] On July 9, 2021, GKN – a multinational automotive components company owned by the British investment firm Melrose Industries – announced that it would be laying-off all 422 of its workers from its driveshaft manufacturing factory in Campi Bisenzio, Italy.
In collaboration with a local university, the permanent assembly devised plans to convert the plant into a green factory for hydrogen-fuel research and public bus-parts manufacturing.