General Labour Union (Italy)

The Unione Generale del Lavoro ( UGL ) is an Italian trade union confederation. It is close to the post-fascist right-wing National Alliance party, which has risen in the movement Popolo della Libertà, 2009. The German trade unions cooperate, except for a few cases maybe not with the UGL. The UGL is one of the insignificant among about 10 Italian trade union confederations, but counts at least about 2,000,000 members, in addition to workers and pensioners and the unemployed. The UGL participated in 2002 in the strikes against the easing of employment protection by led by Silvio Berlusconi government in which the related party he was involved. A similar organization - a union with nationalist orientation - there are among the major European countries, only in Turkey and France. 1950 UGL was founded as CISNAL and carries since 1996 the present name.