Corrado Pardini

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Corrado Pardini (2011)

Corrado Pardini (born June 19, 1965 in Bern ; legal resident in Fahrni ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ) and trade unionist . From 2011 to 2019 he was a member of the National Council .

Life

Pardini grew up in Bern. He completed a four-year apprenticeship as a machine fitter at the Wifag machine factory and then attended the business school in Bern from 1985 to 1987. He is a Swiss- Italian citizen .

Pardini lives in Lyss . He is married and has two children.

labor union

In 1987 he joined the construction and industry union (GBI) in Lyss as a secretary, and in 1996 he moved to Biel in the same position, from where he was responsible for the entire Biel-Seeland region until he became a member of the national management team. After the merger of the GBI with the trade unions SMUV and VHTL , he was first regional secretary of the new major union Unia . While working, he completed a postgraduate degree in management in non-profit organizations at the Association Management Institute of the University of Freiburg for two years . In 2005 he took over the management of the chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry at Unia. From the Unia Congress in 2008, he was a member of the national Unia management team and was responsible for the industry sector. To say goodbye to the Biel Unia section, Pardini and other authors took stock of his work in the book Union between Claims and Everyday Life . In 2013 he was Unia negotiator in the renegotiation of the collective labor agreement for the machine industry (MEM-GAV). The most important innovation of the GAV is the definition of minimum wages. The argument is documented in the book Heavy Metal - How a Trade Union Reinvents Itself in Industry by Oliver Fahrni.

In June 2020 he was elected to the board of directors of Swiss Post at the suggestion of the Syndicom union ; he resigned from the management and all other committees at Unia at the end of July.

politics

Pardini was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern from June 1, 2002 to December 15, 2011 . From May 30, 2011 he was a member of the National Council . He replaced the resigned André Daguet , also a representative of the Unia union. In the 2011 elections and in 2015 he was re-elected in the elections in 2019 he was not re-elected. He was a member of the Commission for Economy and Taxes (WAK), the Commission for Legal Issues (RK) and the Commission for Science, Education, Culture (WBK) of the National Council. The main focus of his parliamentary work was the tightening of the accompanying measures for the free movement of persons with the EU, the regulation of the banking sector and the safeguarding of the label “ Swissness ”. He is an advocate of good bilateral relations with the EU.

Publications

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carlos Hanimann: "A Switzerland with ten million is no problem." In: Die Wochenzeitung , 2/2014, January 9, 2014; interview
  2. ↑ Corrado Pardini becomes Swiss Post's board member and resigns from the Unia union. In: CH Media , June 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ Niklaus Bernhard: Daguet makes way for Pardini. In: Berner Zeitung . February 23, 2011; Retrieved June 1, 2011.
  4. ↑ Manuel Imhasly: Who leaves the big stage - or does not even enter it in the first place. In: srf.ch from October 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pardini, Corrado
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politicians (SP) and trade unionists (Unia)
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern