Franceschini denies asking for Colosseum workers' names

(ANSA) - Rome, September 22 - Culture Minister Dario Franceschini on Tuesday denied asking for the names of the workers who took part in a controversial union meeting at the Colosseum on Friday.
    "It is offensive and defamatory even to merely think that I might have asked the superintendency for a list of names of the workers" who attended the meeting that caused long queues and sparked an outcry, he said.
    Franceschini was responding to a story in the Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper entitled Colosseum, Franceschini Opens Files on Workers.
    The union meeting prompted the government to put museums and archeological sites on the list of essential services that have to be kept running in the event of union action.