Italy: two programs may be subject to a vote during the next CGIL Congress

CGIL divided in two. The obvious political disagreements of the organization conference of May 2008 (see our dispatch No. 080456) have spread within the largest union confederation in Italy. Thus, during the first session of its managing committee – in Rome on November 9-10 to prepare for the next Congress in Rimini on may 5-8, 20010 – two motions were introduced. One, signed by the current leader, Gugliemo Epifani, comes from the majority, and the other from a minority which nevertheless gathers the leaders of the two key sectors, metalworking and civil services, namely Gianni Rinaldini and Carlo Podda. It also includes Domenico Moccia, leader of the banking sector, Giorgio Cremaschi, leader of the left wing, and Nicoletta Rocchi, a reformist, the only confederal secretary who didn’t sign the majority’s motion.
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and the other from a minority which nevertheless gathers the leaders of the two key sectors, metalworking and civil services, namely Gianni Rinaldini and Carlo Podda. It also includes Domenico Moccia, leader of the banking sector, Giorgio Cremaschi, leader of the left wing, and Nicoletta Rocchi, a reformist, the only confederal secretary who didn’t sign the majority’s motion.

Law and labor after the crisis. This is the eloquent title of the first program aimed at “improving the CGIL’s actions,

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