Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Business and Industry
Coorporate Accountability
Human Rights
Labour
New Global Institutions
Women/gender Equality
Financing for Development:
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
Mobilizing international resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Human rights of women
Millennium Development Goals
Women and the economy
Women in power and decision-making
Social Development:
Employment
Poverty
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Capacity-building
Industrial development
International cooperation for an enabling environment
Major Groups
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Geographic scope: |
National
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Country of activity: |
Italy
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Millennium Development Goals: |
Promote gender equality and empower women
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Develop global partnership for development
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Year established: |
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Organizational structure: |
CISL affiliates salaried, white and blue collar employees, contrac labourers, migrant workers, through its branch or sector Federations on the basis of non-denominational, non-partisan and non-ideological values and principlesisl is a trade union confederation with a double organisational structure at different territorial levels: "vertical" structures, Federations corresponding to the main sectors of industry, regrouping all workers employed in the same branch of industry (e.g., chemical industry, metalworkers, banking sector, transports, municipalities) and "horizontal" structures, which at territorial level bring together (confederate) all union Federations. Both structures are present at four different territorial levels (workplace, district, regional and national).CISL is structured, as a Confederation of the branch unions, at territorial (district: such as, for instance, Milan, Rome, Palermo, Florence...) and regional levels (21 regions, in the country: such as Lombardy, Latium, Sicily, Tuscany...; and the Pensioners' Union members abroad).
Workplace level
The work place is at the base of the whole organisational structure. Trade union presence in the workplace is ensured through workplace representatives or shop stewards (RSU - Rappresentanze sindacali unitarie) directly elected by workers on lists presented by any trade union organisation (but, of any hundred freely expressed, secret ballot votes, more than 80% go to Cgil, Cisl and Uil trade unions) according to rules and procedures agreed between unions and employers associations and, now, also covered by law. These workers' representatives, or shop stewards, hold all union rights such as the management of time off for union activities, the right to call a workers' meeting or to post up notices, and are in charge of relations with employers. They engage in company-level bargaining, with the help and support and within the framework defined in national sector collective bargaining by the corresponding national industrial unions, according to rules and procedures defined in the pertinent, collective industry-wide agreement.
Until an effective trade union unity is in place, District level
This is a territorial union structure, roughly corresponding to a group of municipalities and covering all workers in a geographical zone, clearly defined by some administrative, industrial, economic or social common features. This territorial level is the basis on which the union's horizontal structure is built. Each district, as well as each Territorial Union (UST - Unione Sindacale Territoriale), groups all union organisations present in their own geographical area together. The district can be subdivided in Zonal and Municipal Unions, according to decentralisation criteria such as administrative and social homogeneity of a given area.
Regional level
The regional level groups together all districts situated in the same geographical region (Sicily, for instance, or Latium, Lombardy...). Each regional structure, Regional Union (USR - Unione Sindacale Regionale), groups together unions present in their region.
National level
This is the level which groups together all regional organisations. The National Confederation groups together all the National Industrial Federations. |
Number and type of members: |
CISL is the second largest Trade Unions Confederation in Italy. CISL has 4.485.383 members in 2011. 19 major National branch Federations(sector) : e.g. metalworkers, chemical, textile workers, public employees, service, agricultural workers, etc., and 9 other, as we say, secondary Federations. It organizes migrant workers, both regular and irregular, has at all level women and gender promotion coordiating structures and specific rules to promote women leadership within the union. CISL organizes retired workers in a specific retired workers union and young unemployed workers. |
Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Cisl is affiliated with GCap, Global campaign against Poverty, Associazione ONG Italia and cooperate with many other NGos |
Funding structure: |
Membership fees or dues
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