1. Maurizio Landini was born on 7 August 1961 and is an Italian trade unionist.
15 Facts About Maurizio Landini
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Maurizio Landini was former general secretary of FIOM from 2010 to 2017.
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Maurizio Landini was born in Castelnovo ne' Monti, near Reggio Emilia, in 1961.
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Maurizio Landini was the second-last of five children; his father, who fought along with the Italian partisans during the World War II, was a cantoniere, a road maintenance worker who needed to live near the workplace due to service requirements, while his mother was a housewife.
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Maurizio Landini grew up in San Polo d'Enza and, after middle school, he attended the building's surveyor secondary school, but he was forced to leave it due to financial difficulties of his family, and started working when he was only 15 years old as an apprentice welder in a cooperative in the engineering sector in Reggio Emilia.
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On 30 March 2005, Maurizio Landini was elected to the National Secretariat of FIOM.
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Maurizio Landini closely followed with the then General Secretary, Gianni Rinaldini, negotiations for the renewal of the metalworkers' contract in 2009 under the centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi.
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Maurizio Landini was the head of the FIOM's delegation in negotiations for the renewal of the contracts with small and medium-sized enterprises.
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On 1 June 2010, Maurizio Landini was elected General Secretary of FIOM.
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In 2014 Maurizio Landini became a hard critic and opponent of centre-left Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi.
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In June 2015, Maurizio Landini launched Social Coalition, a transversal political organization, whose goals were the protection of workers and the middle class.
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Maurizio Landini campaigned for the "No", stating that it was a "badly made reform".
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On 15 July 2017, Maurizio Landini left the leadership of FIOM and was succeeded by Francesca Re David.
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In December 2019, Maurizio Landini proposed to the new government between M5S and PD the sign of a "social pact" against deindustrialization, with the aim of planning "a project to rule the transition to a new model of sustainable development, but to control the technological transformation in the production system, keeping work, quality of work and workers' rights at the centre of the project".
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Secretary Maurizio Landini described the attack as an "act of fascist squadrismo".