During the referendum, the CGIL took an open stance, but this has not always been the case: here is how the largest Italian union has behaved during the referendum consultations from 1946 to today and what the effects are.
A paradoxical turnaround for the Democratic Party and its broader coalition, which rejects the Fornero law and criticizes the majority for betraying the demagogic election promises once opposed by the opposition. The influence of Landini's CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) is disastrous.
Italy comes to a standstill on Friday, December 12th, for the CGIL general strike. Transportation, schools, healthcare, public offices, and the private sector are affected. In Rome, buses, metro, and trams operate regularly.
Difficult week for transport and services: Tuesday 9 December 24-hour strike by ATAC staff in Rome, Friday 12 December general strike national CGIL in all public and private sectors
The CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) is calling a strike for December 12th to protest the budget law: "Wages must be raised; the budget doesn't do that." Meloni's irony on X
The recent meeting of the Democratic Party reformists in Milan not only broke the group monopoly of the party secretariat, but also "cleared" the CISL, which wants to distance itself from Landini's CGIL.
Instead of pressing the prime minister on wages, taxes, and anemic economic growth, the CGIL secretary slipped on a banana skin. What can one do to avoid talking about the issues that truly matter to people?
The "Flotilla" affair was revealed to be a charade disguised as a humanitarian mission, which ended in a media farce. The general strike of October 3rd, the result of an unnatural alliance, reveals a CGIL union now closer to political activism than to workers...
On Friday, October 3, Italy comes to a standstill for the CGIL and USB general strike, with delays, suspensions, and demonstrations across the country. The Guarantor calls the protest "illegitimate." Trains are also being halted.
The CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) analyzes early retirement at 64 using severance pay (TFR): requirements from 2025 to 2030, income simulations, the effects of the Durigon proposal, and why the measure remains inadequate.
Stormy skies at the second union headquarters: after the scandalous war against the former general secretary of the metalworkers, Marco Bentivogli, there are now winds of purge against the head of training, Francesco Lauria, in whose defense comes an appeal from scholars...
Two days of protests are coming: on September 19th, the CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) shuts down the private sector, and on September 22nd, the grassroots unions will hold a 24-hour general strike. Transportation, schools, and universities are at risk of being shut down across Italy. Here's why.
The Cgil’s reluctance to sign agreements is repeated for the health personnel contract. Despite the resounding defeat suffered in the referendum on the Jobs Act, Landini continues to preach social revolt but those who lose out are the…
The general secretary of the Cgil, Maurizio Landini, comments on the outcome of the referendum: "It is not a victory, today we are not celebrating". But he reiterates that "the problems remain on the table" and confirms: "I have no intention of leaving office"
Taking credit for the referendum defeat does Landini credit, but in the face of such a debacle, a severe self-criticism would be needed, as Di Vittorio did in 1955 after the CGIL defeat at Fiat. Without excluding Landini's resignation, which however…
The referendum on the Jobs Act promises the reinstatement of workers in the case of unjustified dismissals, but if the Yes vote wins, the paradoxical result would be a reduction in the months of compensation for those fired. Compared to ten years ago, the emergency of the labor market…
The Cgil trade union protests against the appointments at the top of Enea which it considers "a slap in the face to the scientific community"
The June 8-9 referendum aims to dismantle key provisions of the Jobs Act and strengthen protections, but risks penalizing small businesses, fixed-term contracts and procurement. On the citizenship front, it is proposed to halve the time to become Italian, with large…
Referendum 8-9 June: Ipsos polls certify the quorum failure. The Constitutional Court admits the questions but dismantles the illusion of a return to Article 18, highlighting its limited practical utility and the risk of a retreat in worker protections
On March 19, 2002, Marco Biagi was assassinated outside his home in Bologna, after the secret services had warned of threats from the new Red Brigades. Despite posthumous criticism and attempts to separate him from his work, the…
Despite their undoubted reformist content, the Jobs Act, the Fornero pension reform and the 2003 Biagi law have long been opposed by the political and trade union left and history will repeat itself in the next referendum.
Schlein has sided with the referendum repeal of the Jobs Act but there are three reasons that make us doubt that it is a wise choice and that it risks leading the Democratic Party to a defeat like the one 40 years ago on…
The referendums promoted by Landini will be held between April 15 and June 15, but without the impetus of the consultation on differentiated autonomy, it will be very difficult to reach the quorum and the Cgil risks repeating its defeat on the sliding scale…
With the referendum on differentiated autonomy cancelled by the Constitutional Court, Landini focuses his rearguard battle on the Jobs Act but reaching the quorum is very difficult. In the Chamber, the battle on worker participation in companies, wanted by the Cisl, begins but…
On early retirement, a strange alliance is emerging between Landini's Cgil and Salvini's Lega in the name of populism, but the lapses of the Minister of Economy, who until now had resisted the temptations of his party, are also striking.
The Cgil reports an increase in the retirement age from 2027 based on the INPS applications which however denies: "the certifications will be drawn up based on the currently published tables". Let's clarify a bit
Italian trade unionism is changing, with Cgil and Uil approaching the world of Cobas, transforming strikes into symbolic cries rather than real bargaining tools. It is time to rethink collective bargaining, focusing on higher wages…
Son of the pilot of the Superga tragedy and appreciated head of the foreign office of the Cgil in the 70s, Giancarlo Meroni, a fine political analyst who also collaborated with FIRSTonline, has passed away in Rome
The political turning point of Landini's Cgil will find its first manifestation in the general strike but the arrogance of the first union towards the institutions is a very serious evil for democracy
Landini is changing the map and traditions of Italian trade unionism but no one has yet understood what his real objectives are other than his aspiration to assume an increasingly markedly political role.
The Friday strikes of public transport, which paralyze cities, smell of Cobas and are seen as smoke in the eyes of the weakest sections of the population, who are the most damaged. May the secretary of the…
Bombardieri has long transformed the Uil into a blind servant of Landini's Cgil, hoping that gregariousness will yield him a future, which is actually unlikely. But who and what use is a Uil reduced to this?
Guido Bolaffi, a former trade unionist, public manager and above all a passionate reformist who knew how to put coherence before his own personal interests, has suddenly passed away. FIRSTonline's condolences to the family
Weekly column "Work & Pensions - Politically (In)correct" by Giuliano Cazzola: Landini completes the genetic mutation of the Cgil, archives the trade union profession and makes the Confederation an opposition political force
Employment is growing and so are permanent employment contracts. The successes of collective bargaining are undoubted but the secretary of the Cgil talks about something else
A week of mobilization for climate and environment. A Deloitte research records positive signals in companies
Socialist deputy general secretary with Luciano Lama and Bruno Trentin, Ottaviano Del Turco, who passed away in the night after a long illness and tormented by incredible judicial vicissitudes, was one of the most brilliant trade unionists of the 80s, then secretary of the PSI...
The announcement came from his son. Former president of the Abruzzo region, former minister of the Amato Government, senator and deputy. He was deputy secretary of Luciano Lama's CGIL and then secretary of the PSI
The general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, deals with everything but what should be the main concern of trade unionists: increasing the wages of Italian workers, which are among the lowest in Europe.…
The Ecobonus in a CGIL study based on data from the Ministry of the Environment. Lombardy and Veneto at the top of financing
Landini claims that the Jobs Act has increased precariousness and fixed-term contracts but Pietro Ichino uses INPS and Istat data which say exactly the opposite of what the CGIL secretary says
The Suviana tragedy and not just the need to review workplace safety regulations. The referendum is a sign of weakness.
This issue begins with "Lavoro & Pensioni - Politically (in)correct", the new weekly column by Giuliano Cazzola, which will be published every Monday. In this speech, Cazzola explains why the CGIL initiative, often with the support of Uil, is increasingly less…
The referendums launched by the CGIL have nothing to do with trade unions but are the antechamber of a political project that Landini hopes to crown with his leadership of the M5S-Pd axis on a maximalist and populist platform that is completely unlikely to…
The absence of social dialogue is the common thread that binds together and characterizes the events that the 2023 Work Yearbook recounts. But whose responsibility is it? Massimo Mascini, the director of the publication does not hesitate to indicate them clearly: the…
After the meeting at MIT, without Landini and Bombardieri, the unions confirm the strike on Friday 17 November - Salvini ready to sign the order for the stop from 9 to 12
Too many strikes inflate and obscure the civil and political value of the strike and Friday transport strikes offend users, who are usually the less well-off citizens. Labor law expert and former left-wing parliamentarian Pietro Ichino is right...
The Guarantee Commission invites the unions to reformulate the stop in some sectors, but some categories have already said that they will not respect the Guarantor's decisions. Especially for the CGIL, which made it a question of principle, the…
The union fires and does so using the provisions of the Jobs Act which it would like to abolish: paradoxical. But the funny thing is that the Democratic Party risks following the same path
You can change your mind about the minimum wage but the memory cannot be erased and labor law expert Pietro Ichino recalls that in reality the minimum wage was already in the implementing decrees of the Jobs Act but that the opposition of the CGIL prevented its implementation...
Following the Pd and Cinque Stelle bill on the guaranteed minimum wage, the secretaries of the CGIL and UIL risk a sensational own goal that does not guarantee adequate wages, weakens union representation and above all reduces spaces…
The secretary general of the CGIL seems to ignore the improvements in the Italian economy and in employment and collects amnesia and approximation on wages and work - It would be enough to reflect on the recommendations of the Governor of the Bank of Italy Visco
Rome honors Bruno Trentin by dedicating a street inaugurated by the mayor Gualtieri to him. A cultured and innovative trade unionist, Trentin led the Fiom in the hot autumn and founded the FLM with Carniti and Benvenuto before becoming General Secretary of the CGIL in 1988…
Instead of focusing on increasing wages, which has been at a standstill for too many years, the line proposed by Landini at the recent CGIL congress focuses on reducing the working week to 4 days for equal wages, but without adequate growth in productivity…
After the CGIL congress which confirmed Maurizio Landini to the general secretariat by 94%, the debate on the minimum wage is more open than ever both at the union and political level
INTERVIEW WITH MARCO BENTIVOGLI, former general secretary of the metalworkers of the Fim-Cisl - Both the CGIL and the Democratic Party have a huge problem of representation and Landini's ability to change will be measured in the facts, but his references…
Premier Meloni condemns the far-right attack on the union headquarters and elicits applause - Complaints upon her arrival - "Wages blocked for 30 years, tax reform is a lever for growth"
The works of the nineteenth congress of the CGIL "Work creates the future" are underway. Here is Landini's long message
Landini's CGIL made the Spanish model a banner in the fight against precariousness but did not realize its limits - Solidarity with the French trade unions on strike against the pension reform is even paradoxical because it denies…
The Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will participate in the CGIL National Congress to be held from 15 to 18 March in Rimini: here's who will be there
The secretary of the Democratic Party has reneged on the Jobs Act that the Democratic Party had voted for and invoked an "anti-liberal" turn on labor relations but Professor Ichino, one of the most authoritative Italian labor lawyers, demonstrates - data to…
The Democratic Party is contemplating nominating Susanna Camusso for Milan, a controversial former general secretary of the CGIL, but in addition to being a provocation to Calenda, the move would be a sensational boomerang for Letta's party: for these reasons
Mario Draghi in the press conference after the meeting with the unions is explicit: "You can't govern with ultimatums". Aid is on the way but without budget deviation
The clear condemnation by the CGIL of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 56 suggests that the great trade union leaders of yesterday - from Luciano Lama to Giuseppe Di Vittorio - would have struggled to justify the one-way pacifism of the CGIL...
The Cnel reveals that the expired collective agreements concern almost 8 million employed people - Meanwhile, the proliferation of collective bargaining agreements continues, but according to the CGIL it affects few workers
The unions return to protest over the failure to convene the employers' parties on the renewal of the national collective agreement and the improvement of working conditions - Here are the times of the strike and the guarantee periods
The unions ask for the renewal of the contract that expired in 2017 – The bands change from city to city: from Milan to Rome to Palermo, here are the protest times
INTERVIEW WITH GIANFRANCO BORGHINI, former parliamentarian and head of PCI Industry - By succumbing to the flattery of corporatism, populism and rebellion, the union has become "the weak link of Italian democracy" without the majority of the left being…
After the protest, a proposal is needed, but to participate in the challenge of change, the unions would need an adequate vision of the innovations taking place in the Italian economy and society - The change in the historical identity of the Uil, which is losing the opportunity, is striking…
8-hour general strike across Italy by CGIL and UIL (but not CISL) against the government, despite Draghi having waged a vigorous fight against the pandemic and restoring economic growth to the country (+6,3% of GDP)…
The achievements of the Draghi government in the fight against the pandemic and on an economic and social level are there for all to see: only an unsustainable myopia can induce CGIL and UIL to proclaim one of the most unfounded general strikes ever…
Gate 4 of the Port of Trieste has been freed. The police forces used tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrators to restore normal activity. Strike extended until October 21st
One hundred years after his birth, Luciano Lama still embodies one of the most representative figures of the Italian trade union, a union which, under his leadership, knew how to link the defense of workers' interests to the general ones of the country and knew how to get out…
Squadrist assault on the CGIL headquarters in Rome and clashes with the police forces of the No Vax demonstrators, including the militants of the far right of Forza Nuova - Message from Mattarella and Draghi to Landini - Il…
The general secretary of the CGIL has proposed to CISL and UIL to relaunch union unity, believing that the prejudicial anti-unitary policies have long since disappeared. But to arrive at unity it would be necessary to clarify its foundations, starting from contractual policies and those…
14 years after his death, the lack of a trade unionist of Bruno Trentin's caliber is felt more every day - His reflections are more relevant than ever
The general secretary of the CGIL defends workers who have not had a vaccination certificate, ignoring the safety rights of those who have been vaccinated and glosses over the effects that a law would have rather than an agreement between the social partners on the obligation…
For years he was the cantor of the leader of the Fiom and then of the CGIL, Bruno Trentin, and on the Unit he wrote the deeds of the union's most glorious season
Guglielmo Epifani, the first socialist to lead the CGIL, passed away at the age of 71 - Always smiling, he was a great mediator - In recent years he had left the Democratic Party to join Leu
Twenty-five years ago Luciano Lama died, the unforgettable general secretary of the CGIL who still today many regret for his unitary and passionately reforming line that aimed to reconcile the interests of workers with the general interest of Italy
The new secretary of the Democratic Party has made a surprise opening to the participation of workers in companies which in Italy has never had much luck, also due to the dissent of a part of the union - But a real leap in…
The new secretary of the Democratic Party has made interesting openings on the participation of workers in the life of the companies which, however, are waiting for the verification of the facts: he will be able to archive his party's tendency to join the CGIL in a sort of belt...
The proposal to involve workers in the company's results is one of the novelties of the Letta report at the time of assuming the secretariat of the Democratic Party but, if it is really taken to the end, it will only collide with the conservatism of…
Francesca Carnoso speaks, the lawyer member of the National Board of Fisac CGIL, who, at the tip of the Statute, contests the eligibility of the Secretary General of the category, Nino Baseotto, due to age limits - This will be discussed on January 27 in the Board - " OR…
Piero Boni was one of the major socialist trade union leaders in Italy: first he was the number 2 of the Fiom and then of the CGIL alongside Luciano Lama
Giacomo Brodolini was born on 19 July 1920, Minister of Labor of the second government since 68. Rumor - In addition to the Workers' Statute, together with Gino Giugni, he was responsible for overcoming wage cages and restructuring the system…
The departure of a union protagonist like Bentivogli - still yesterday threatened with death by terrorism and to whom all our solidarity goes - could be an opportunity for the CGIL but the new Confindustria is on its way…
Changing of the guard arriving at the top of Uil, where in early July the current number 2 Pierpaolo Bombardieri is a candidate to succeed Carmelo Barbagallo, who will become the retired Uil secretary - After CGIL and UIL, the renewal of the…
In August 12 years ago Bruno Trentin, historic secretary of Fiom and CGIL died but his example has not been lost: the memories and nostalgia of those who worked alongside him in the golden age of Italian trade unionism
The demonstration by CGIL, CISL and UIL is enriched, surprisingly, by the participation of Confindustria Romagna which takes the field against the drilling block. The unions protest against a "recessionary manoeuvre": procession at 9 from Piazza della Repubblica -…
The national assembly of the CGIL that left the Bari Congress elected Maurizio Landini as the new general secretary in place of Camusso with 93% of the votes - Vincenzo Colla and Gianna Fracassi are the two new deputy secretaries - The new secretary launches…
Agreement during the night between the two internal sides of the CGIL but many doubts about the line that Landini will support, so far very ambiguous towards the choices of the yellow-green government - More difficult union unit
The CGIL Congress that opens today in Bari is very far from the one held in 1973 in the same Apulian capital and which represented the highest moment of a very strong union which, under the leadership of…
Close to the CGIL congress, new appointments at the top of the UIL which however remain under the strict control of the group headed by the controversial secretary general Barbagallo and is preparing to get ever closer to the yellow-green government
The ongoing congressional battle in the CGIL between the supporters of Landini as Camusso's successor and those of Colla is increasingly bitter and goes beyond the union sphere and pits against those who - supporting Landini - wink…
Beyond her disastrous political and trade union balance sheet, the outgoing general secretary of the CGIL leaves the Confederation's accounts in deep red with a loss of 2,6 million euros which will weigh on her successor
Camusso enters the CGIL congressional debate with a straight leg and indicates the former secretary of Fiom, Maurizio Landini, as her successor, breaking confederal etiquette - But the reformist Colla does not withdraw and remains in the running for…
In the congressional season of the CGIL, Camusso's unexpected intention to take sides in favor of Landini, once her bitter opponent, is discussed, but the history of the largest Italian trade union is full of surprises such as when in 86 everyone expected that…
The reforming union platform announced by Colla to run for leadership of the largest Italian trade union will force the CGIL to abandon ambiguity and clearly pronounce itself on the Lega-Cinque Stelle government and its populist social measures
German-style union, no sympathy for populism, Innovation and Industry 4.0, a patrimonial fund to finance investments: this is the union platform outlined in the Corriere della Sera by Vincenzo Colla, the reformist candidate at the helm of the CGIL to which…
