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CISL

Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori

Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions

High Impact Centrist / Christian Social
Formed in 1950 following a split from the CGIL, the CISL promotes a participatory model of industrial relations that emphasizes negotiation, social dialogue, and second-level bargaining at company or territorial level. It is particularly active in public administration, healthcare, and education, and generally adopts a more reformist stance than the CGIL in national labor disputes.
Membership
~3.7M
Sectors
5

Sectors

Public Administration
Healthcare
Education
Banking
Retail

Political Orientation

Centrist / Christian Social

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Data Source: Aggregated from CNEL (National Council for Economics and Labour), Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, and union tesseramento (membership) audits.

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