Luigi Viviani (

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

, 22 October 1937) is an Italian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

and

trade unionist A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and Employee ben ...

, actively involved in various national and local political activities and in the political fabric of Verona.

Biography

During the

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Viviani was a member of the general secretariat of the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions during the secretariat of

Pierre Carniti Pierre Carniti (25 September 1936 – 5 June 2018) was an Italian politician and trade unionist. Carniti was born in Castelleone, in the province of Cremona, Lombardy. He was general secretary of CISL, the major Catholic trade union federat ...

. In 1993 he co-founded the movement of the

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with

Ermanno Gorrieri Ermanno Gorrieri (26 November 1920 – 29 December 2004) was an Italian politician and economist. Biography Gorrieri was born in Magreta in 1920. In 1928 he moved to Modena, where he graduated in law, and became an officer of the Alpine troops. ...

, Pierre Carniti and other political exponents. He then became a senator of the Republic for two legislatures. During the 1996-2001 legislature he was Undersecretary for Labour with Minister Cesare Salvi; in the next legislature (2001-2006) he was vice-president of the Democrats of the Left group in the Senate.

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1937 births Living people Democrats of the Left politicians Italian trade unionists Politicians from Verona Senators of Legislature XIII of Italy Senators of Legislature XIV of Italy 20th-century Italian politicians 21st-century Italian politicians {{Italy-politician-DemocraticPartyItaly-stub