Unione Generale del Lavoro

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The Unione Generale del Lavoro (UGL) is an Italian trade union federation . In 1950 the UGL was founded as CISNAL ( Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Nazionali dei Lavoratori ) and has had its current name since 1996. The UGL is the fourth largest of the state-wide Italian trade union confederations, has a nationalist orientation and has around 1.8 million members (as of 2018), including employees, pensioners and the unemployed. The UGL is represented in the Consiglio nazionale dell'economia e del lavoro (CNEL) and in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The union participates in national collective bargaining agreements and trilateral agreements with employers and state institutions.

history

From its foundation in 1950, CISNAL was initially close to the neo-fascist party Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) and wanted to offer an alternative to the left ( CGIL , UIL ) and Christian trade union confederations ( CISL ). She strove for "socialization and corporatism ". As in the fascist movement of the 1930s, there was an internal debate between a revolutionary, anti-capitalist wing and a more moderate, corporatist current. The latter prevailed in the course of the 1960s. Long-time CISNAL General Secretary Giovanni Roberti (1964–1977) was also a member of the MSI in the Italian Parliament, but left the party in 1976, which also broke the close ties between the union and MSI.

After a few uneasy years, the organizations came closer together and the CISNAL came under the de facto control of the neo-fascist party. In the 1970s, CISNAL had around 300,000 members. It was completely isolated from the three major trade union federations because of its ideological orientation; however, it maintained close links with independent branch and individual trade unions. It was more likely to be represented among civil servants and office workers.

With the successor party of the MSI, the national conservative Alleanza Nazionale (AN), founded in 1995 , the union only had loose relations. It renamed itself UGL in 1996 and at the same time opened up to other small, politically independent unions. At the AN party congress in Verona in 1998 only 9.9% of the delegates were members of the UGL (about half as many as before at the CISNAL). In 2002 she was also involved in the strikes against the relaxation of dismissal protection by the government led by Silvio Berlusconi , although the Alleanza Nazionale was part of the government. From 2006 to 2010 the UGL was led by Renata Polverini , who then switched to politics and became regional president of Lazio for the center-right party Il Popolo della Libertà (emerged from AN and Berlusconi's Forza Italia ) . Francesco Paolo Capone has been General Secretary of the UGL since 2015 .

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