Italian Federation of Metalworkers

The Italian Federation of Metalworkers (Italian: Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici, FIOM) is a trade union representing workers in the metal and engineering industries in Italy.

FIOM
Full nameItalian Federation of
Metalworkers
Native nameFederazione Impiegati
Operai Metallurgici
Founded16 June 1901
Members351,432 (2011)
Key peopleFrancesca Re David
(General Secretary)
Office locationCorso Trieste, 36
00198 Rome, Italy
CountryItaly
Websitewww.fiom-cgil.it

The union was founded at a conference in Livorno, on 16 June 1901. In 1906, it was a founding affiliate of the General Confederation of Labour. Membership grew steadily, and by 1916, it had reached 22,445. In 1919, the union signed an agreement limiting working hours to a maximum of 48 a week. It was banned by the fascist government in 1924.[1]

The union was re-established in 1944, and affiliated to the new Italian General Confederation of Labour. By 1946, it had 638,697 members. Although both the social democratic and Christian democratic groups soon split away, by 1949, the union still claimed 609,094 members.[1] By 1998, membership had declined to 365,942.[2]

General Secretaries
1901: Ernesto Verzi[1]
1907: Silla Coccia and Cleobulo Rossi
1908: Bruno Buozzi[1]
1924: Union banned[1]
1944: Giovanni Parodi[3]
1945: Antonio Negro[3]
1946: Giovanni Roveda[3]
1955: Agostino Novella[3]
1957: Luciano Lama[3]
1961: Bruno Trentin[3]
1977: Pio Galli[3]
1985: Sergio Garavini[3]
1987: Angelo Airoldi[3]
1991: Fausto Vigevani[3]
1994: Claudio Sabattini[3]
2002: Gianni Rinaldini[3]
2010: Maurizio Landini[3]
2017: Francesca Re David[3]

References
  1. "Timeline. La Fiom dal 1901 al 2018". FIOM. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  2. Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 402–404. ISBN 0333771125.
  3. Gianfagna, Andrea (2020). Gli uomini e le donne della Cgil (PDF). CGIL. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
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