Cristina Conchiglia, married name Calasso (

Brindisi Brindisi ( , ) ; la, Brundisium; grc, Βρεντέσιον, translit=Brentésion; cms, Brunda), group=pron is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Histo ...

, 4 January 1923 -

Lecce Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...

, 5 May 2013), was an Italian trade unionist and politician. Leader of the Italian General Confederation of Labour and the Italian Communist Party. She was Mayor Emeritus of Copertino and member of

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from 1976 to 1983.

Biography

Although Cristina Conchiglia was born in Brindisi, her life as a trade unionist began in Salento, where she arrived in 1950 as a result of her marriage to the then Member of Parliament, (1899-1983), who was active with the farmers of Arneo. She was a leading figure in the struggles to secure the rights of women tobacco workers in Salento, who were forced to work under inadequate conditions and wages. In the early 1950s, she was arrested in Lecce for leading a tobacco strike and founded the Italian tobacco workers' union. Together with her husband Giuseppe, she participated in the . Cristina Conchiglia was a member of the Italian Parliament during the two legislatures VII and

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, from 5 July 1976 to 11 July 1983. She was elected for the constituency of Lecce and belonged to the Communist group. From 13 June 1981 to 11 July 1983, she was Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee for the advice to the Government on legislation concerning customs duties. She died on 5 May 2013 at the age of 90 at her home in Lecce.

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