General Labour Union (Italy)

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**UGL**

General Labour Union
Unione Generale del Lavoro
Founded	1950
Country	Italy
Affiliation	ITUC
Key people	Stefano Cetia, general secretary; Gianni Roberto, founder
Office location	Rome, Italy
Website	www.ugl.it

The General Labour Union (UGL) is a national trade union center in Italy. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. It is very closely associated to the neo-Fascist party Italian Social Movement (Movimento sociale italiano; MSI), which was disolved into the National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale; AN) in 1995.

The UGL was founded as the National Italian Workers' Union (Confederazione Italiana dei Sindacati Nazionali dei Lavoratori; CISNAL) by Gianni Roberto. The goal of the CISNAL was to fight the Italian General Confederation of Labour, which was at the time controlled by communists as well as the Italian Labour Union and the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions, which both split from it in 1950. The union always fought to secure the "work peace". It never took advantage of workers' co-determination rights, instead it often organized scabs during strikes and spied on the other unions for the employers. The UGL cooperates with employers - especially owners of large estates in Mezzogiorno - to find workers, which were either not organized in any union or only in the UGL.

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Feldbauer, Gerhard (1996). Von Mussolini bis Fini: Die extreme Rechte in Italien. Berlin, Germany: Elefanten Press. ISBN 3-88520-575-0.