Change in sight at the top of Uil, the smallest of the three confederal power plants after CGIL and CISL: in the Central Committee at the beginning of July, the current General Secretary, Carmelo Barbagallo, 73 years old, will leave after 6 years and in his place the current number 2 will go up, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, 56 years old, Roman by adoption and Calabrian by origin.
It is a change in continuity, even if unlike Barbagallo, who will certainly go down in the history of the union as the worst general secretary of the Uil, Bombardieri, who was in the past secretary of the Uil University and research and of the Uil of Rome, yes presents better and has some more ideas. Recently Bombardieri, who does not have a precise political colouring, would have supported the idea dear to the grillini of proposing reduction of working hours for equal wages.
In turn, Barbagallo, leaving the leadership of the Confederation of via Lucullo, will become general secretary of the retired Uil, where he is already Commissioner. Two or three other confederal secretaries should leave together with Barbagallo, the best known of which is Antonio Foccillowho was in charge of the public service.
After Barbagallo's opaque general secretariat, it won't be easy for Bombardieri push Uil to get back on top and to assume a leading role in the Italian trade union movement as it had in the past in the time of Raffaele Vanni first and above all of Giorgio Benvenuto later.
The changing of the guard at the top of the Uil, after the one that has already taken place in the CGIL where Maurizio Landini replaced the extremely disappointing Susanna Camusso by shelving the more maximalist positions, could also stir the waters in the CISL, which is also long-time prisoner of colorless management and devoid of personality led by the secretary general Annamaria Furlan, who seemed to be about to stand as a candidate with the Democratic Party in the regional elections of Liguria a few months ago.
The choice of UIL leaders by co-optation is a sign of non-democracy and cultural decline.
Bad article that does not correspond in the slightest to what he has done since his arrival as general secretary.
Reading your article on the UIL, and on Carmelo Barbagallo, a doubt emerges. Either you are misinformed (consequently you misinform), or you are in bad faith. You choose.
John DiPisa