The General Labour Union (UGL) is a national trade union center

National trade union center

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 in Italy

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. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation

International Trade Union Confederation

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. It is very closely associated to the neo-Fascist

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 party Italian Social Movement

Italian Social Movement

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 (Movimento sociale italiano; MSI), which was dissolved into the National Alliance

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 (Alleanza Nazionale; AN) in 1995.

The UGL was founded as the National Italian Workers' Union (Confederazione Italiana dei Sindacati Nazionali dei Lavoratori; CISNAL) by Gianni Roberto. The goal of the CISNAL was to fight the Italian General Confederation of Labour

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, which was at the time controlled by communists

Communism

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 as well as the Italian Labour Union

Italian Labour Union

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 and the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions

Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions

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, which both split from it in 1950. The union always fought to secure the "work peace". The UGL cooperates with employers - especially owners of large estates in Mezzogiorno

Mezzogiorno

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- to find workers, which were either not organized in any union or only in the UGL.