The national executive of the Fim Cisl will be held on 5 June in Rome, in the Anec headquarters in Via di Villa Patrizi 10 starting at 10, in the presence of the Fim Cisl General Secretary Marco Bentivogli. At the center of the debate are the issues concerning the forthcoming renewal of the expiring metalworkers' contract and the path that will lead the Cisl metalworkers to the organizational meeting scheduled in Rome on 27 and 28 June. The executive will also and above all be the occasion, one year after his death on 5 June last year, to commemorate Pierre Carniti and present his book, which has never been published until now: "Passato Prossimo" Memoirs of a trade unionist from assault (ed. Castelvecchi).
The book, written in 2003 by Pierre Carniti and never published before, has been circulated up to now in a semi-clandestine manner. It is a precious document for the memory of a crucial period in the recent political and trade union history of the country, which goes from 1973 to 1985, in which significant events in the life of the country followed one another: the reshuffling of the political framework with the appearance of the Communist Party in the area of government, the historic compromise, the birth of the unitary trade union federation, terrorism, the Fiat crisis, the escalator, the definitive breakdown of trade union unity. A precious document to read that period through the eyes of one of the leading protagonists.
Pierre recalls the general secretary of the Fim Cisl Marco Bentivogli who wrote the introduction to the volume, he was an "assault trade unionist", a true leader, "he led the struggles of the metalworkers in a difficult period but full of achievements for the workers and for the country, including the important season that led to important National Contracts for metalworkers at the end of the 60s as well as the affirmation of fundamental trade union rights in factories. He was a great innovator, often going against the trend of the common thinking of those years, he fought for the affirmation of company bargaining and was the main protagonist of incomes policy and of the 1984 Valentine's Agreement. He was a European parliamentarian and a man of great rectitude and intellectual honesty”.
