by InTrieste
Trieste and the rest of Italy celebrates Labor Day – Festa dei Lavoratori or Festa del Lavoro – with a yearly nationwide public holiday on 1 May.
This year the Primo Maggio holiday falls on a Monday so will result in a long weekend and a day off for Italy’s schools and public offices.
The annual event, marked in more than 80 countries, is held in commemoration of the labor movement and the social and economic achievements of trade unions on behalf of workers.
The Primo Maggio holiday is celebrated in Trieste with a march at the front of which will be the workers of the infamous Wartsila plant.
Organized by Trieste’s trade unions, the march is used as a platform to promote workers’ rights and bring attention to the recentely laid off workers of the Wartsila plant. The rally will result in numerous traffic diversions in the downtown area on Monday.
