Italian Federation of Metalworkers
# Italian Federation of Metalworkers

The Italian Federation of Metalworkers (Italian: Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici, FIOM) is a trade union representing workers in the metal and engineering industries in Italy.

The union was founded at a conference in Livorno, on 16 June 1901. In 1906, it was a founding affiliate of the General Confederation of Labour. Membership grew steadily, and by 1916, it had reached 22,445. In 1919, the union signed an agreement limiting working hours to a maximum of 48 a week. It was banned by the fascist government in 1924.

The union was re-established in 1944, and affiliated to the new Italian General Confederation of Labour. By 1946, it had 638,697 members. Although both the social democratic and Christian democratic groups soon split away, by 1949, the union still claimed 609,094 members. By 1998, membership had declined to 365,942.

## General Secretaries

    1901: Ernesto Verzi
    1907: Silla Coccia and Cleobulo Rossi
    1908: Bruno Buozzi
    1924: Union banned
    1944: Giovanni Parodi
    1945: Antonio Negro
    1946: Giovanni Roveda
    1955: Agostino Novella
    1957: Luciano Lama
    1961: Bruno Trentin
    1977: Pio Galli
    1985: Sergio Garavini
    1987: Angelo Airoldi
    1991: Fausto Vigevani
    1994: Claudio Sabattini
    2002: Gianni Rinaldini
    2010: Maurizio Landini
    2017: Francesca Re David
