Bruno Trentin

Bruno Trentin was an Italian trade unionist, politician and partisan.

Silvio Trentin's son, was born in France, where his father, an anti-fascist, had fled. At 15 he was arrested by the Germans for "insurrezional" actions. After the armistice of Cassibile, with the family he returned to Italy to participate in the liberation war by joining the Resistance. He was arrested with his father in November '43. At the death of his father, in March 1944, he became a 17-year-old commander of a partisan brigade Justice and Freedom.

In 1949 he graduated in law at the University of Padua with Professor Enrico Opocher. He also studied at Harvard University. Before Liberation, he manifested his federalist ideas, according to the proudhonian model.

In 1949 he joined CGIL and began working in the trade union center. The following year he joined the Italian Communist Party and was elected first municipal councilor in Rome (1960 - 1973) and later a national deputy (1962 - 1972.) At the end of the parliamentary term he did not recruit for incompatibility between trade union and parliamentary posts.

In 1958 he was deputy secretary of CGIL and from 1962 to 1977 was Secretary General of FIOM and FLM.

In 1988 he moved to CGIL, leading it to 1994. In 1992, along with CISL and UIL, a historic agreement on income policy that put an end to the escalator system , a mechanism for automatic salary reimbursement at cost of living that had caused strong inflation . Immediately after signing he resigned from CGIL's secretariat, whose guide was replaced two years later by Sergio Cofferati.

He was a member of the National Council of Economics and Labor (CNEL), since 1994 led the CGIL program office, and from 1999 to 2004 was a European parliamentary among the files of the Left Democrats.

He died in Rome on August 23, 2007, suffering from pneumonia resistant to antibiotic therapy and an intractable fever, aggravated by an immune deficiency linked to severe head trauma a year ago, caused by a bicycle crash on the Drava Cycle . He was buried at the Cimitero del Verano in Rome.