Italy: right wing union Confederation, UGL, is celebrating its 60th birthday

“The UGL is moving with devotion and humility through small and large negotiations, never feeling inferior, with a high growth – 14.7% – in 2010.”  It is by pointing to this “extraordinary result” that the UGL’s current leader, Giovanni Centrella, presented the end of the celebration for the 60th anniversary of the confederation this afternoon in Naples.  The UGL was born from the Italian Confederation of National Workers’ Unions – Cisnal, created on March 24, 1950 in Naples by the MP of the ‘national right’ party, the Italian Social Movement (MSI), Gianni Roberti, and the two unionists, Giuseppe Landi and Ugo Clavenzani, who rejected the “ideology of class struggle which used to prevail in the union world at the time” and extolled the virtues of “workers’ involvement with the general management of the economy and the responsibility of corporate management, necessary to best increased production and for a fairer division of income.”
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di and Ugo Clavenzani, who rejected the “ideology of class struggle which used to prevail in the union world at the time” and extolled the virtues of “workers’ involvement with the general management of the economy and the responsibility of corporate management, necessary to best increased production and for a fairer division of income.”

From Cisnal to UGL. The Cisnal started with 46 federations and 78 provincial unions, becoming the 4th confederation in Italy between 1956 and 1959. After taki

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