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FIRST THE WRITERS, NOW NUDE MODELS REVIVE STRIKES

GUARDIAN, UK - Angry nude models across Italy have gone on strike in a
bitter dispute over poor pay and conditions. The protesters, both male
and female, are demanding "professional recognition" and full-time
contracts in a staged 24-hour walk-out. Currently, only 50 of about 300
artists' models at Italian art schools have fixed annual contracts. . .
Antonella Migliorini, 42, told Italy's La Stampa newspaper: "Our work is
not recognised. We pose for eight hours a day and still the colleges
treat us like teaching tools. We do a difficult job, with a great
tradition resting on our shoulders, which requires both imagination and
great physical concentration.". . . Yesterday, models who gathered at a
ceremony inaugurating the academic year at La Sapienza, Rome's leading
university, kept their clothes on in protest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2243087,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront


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FIRST THE WRITERS, NOW NUDE MODELS REVIVE STRIKES

GUARDIAN, UK - Angry nude models across Italy have gone on strike in a
bitter dispute over poor pay and conditions. The protesters, both male
and female, are demanding "professional recognition" and full-time
contracts in a staged 24-hour walk-out. Currently, only 50 of about 300
artists' models at Italian art schools have fixed annual contracts. . .
Antonella Migliorini, 42, told Italy's La Stampa newspaper: "Our work is
not recognised. We pose for eight hours a day and still the colleges
treat us like teaching tools. We do a difficult job, with a great
tradition resting on our shoulders, which requires both imagination and
great physical concentration.". . . Yesterday, models who gathered at a
ceremony inaugurating the academic year at La Sapienza, Rome's leading
university, kept their clothes on in protest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2243087,00.html?gusrc
=rss&feed=networkfront


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