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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and agencies

Gucci design staff strike in protest at plan to relocate to Milan

A Gucci sign is seen outside a shop in Rome.
Gucci said the relocation did ‘not envisage any reduction in personnel’ and would be ‘implemented in full compliance with current regulations’. Photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters

About 50 Gucci employees in Italy have gone on strike in protest against plans to relocate a significant part of its design studio team from Rome to Milan in what they claim is a “mass redundancy in disguise”.

Gucci, which is owned by the French-based luxury goods group Kering, announced in October it would move 153 of its 219 design employees from the Italian capital to Milan, 380 miles away in Lombardy.

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