Also I saw this earlier today:
Fiat union's Ronaldo strike flops
Tommaso Ebhardt
Bloomberg
July 16, 2018 12:15 CET
A strike called by a small union at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to protest the purchase of Cristiano Ronaldo by Juventus Football Club became viral news on social media last week.
Only five workers showed up at the protest on Monday though.
Turnout for the strike amounted to 0.3 percent of the 1,700 workers at the first shift of the Melfi assembly plant in southern Italy, the first of a two-day protest organized by the USB union. "The protest actions promoted in recent days over soccer were a resounding flop," a spokesman for the automaker said. He said the participation rate of 0.3 percent showed the strike was promoted by groups that were not representing the workforce.
The labor group called the strike because it found "unacceptable that, while FCA workers continue to make huge economic sacrifices, the company spends hundreds of millions of euros on the purchase of a player," the union said last week. Juventus, like Fiat Chrysler, is controlled by the billionaire Agnelli family. Unions representing the majority of FCA workers had rejected the strike, which is supposed to take place between late Sunday and early Tuesday, calling it "mere advertising."
Fiat's Melfi plant builds the Fiat 500x, Punto and Jeep Renegade models, according to Automotive News Europe's car assembly plant map.