No Sweat Organiser Stopped at Italian Border

From the No Sweat office:
Mick's been pulled of the No Sweat coach at the Swiss-Italian border and handed a banning order which keeps him out of Italy for the next week.
A few weeks ago, Berlusconi threatened to suspend the Schengen Agreement, which allows for free movement with EU signatory countries. After protests from Italian MP’s, the Toscana region which is hosting the ESF, and international supporters, this was reduced to an order instituting temporary border controls. Presumably this is the order under which Mick Duncan is being banned. But the information on Mick must have come from the British state.
Mick was going to speak at No Sweat’s conference at the ESF, jointly organised with the Clean Clothes Campaign, on fighting sweatshop labour. Mick and No Sweat have been active, along with the GMB union, in organising East End garment workers. Internationally, they have been building solidarity with for example the free trade union, FNBPI in Indonesia, whose leader Dita Sari spoke at the No Sweat conference last year.
Mick was also organising for workers from Kuk Dong-Mexmode in Mexico, one of the few successful attempts to unionise sweatshops, to come to to this year’s No Sweat conference on Sweatshops, Globalisation and International Solidarity.