title: Italian Federation of Metalworkers
text: # 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
  