The July 16 failed Ivo Lakes, a free man and a great trade unionist. In the difficult
seventies he was appointed general manager dell'Enas and is able to organize an institution with great intelligence and management skills, leading to his patronage season's most successful and territorial expansion in Italy and abroad.
arrives at the head of Cisnal in 1977, succeeding John Roberti, and is confirmed general secretary of the union congress in 1980 and 1987. Remain in office until 1990, when he decided to step aside to give space to young people and the mayor appoints its chairman.
are the dark times of terrorism, but they are also the years of the communist threat and then the consociativismo. The stringent pressure of opposing forces in both the political and crush the union and its failure to offer Cisnal on equal terms against workers and the media and on the tables if he struggles one of the momentous issues of the moment: the industrial crisis and the 'start corporate restructuring.
"remind one of the men who, at critical times for our organization - says Renata Polverini, current Secretary General Ugl (ex Cisnal) - has instilled a growing attachment to our union, defending the rights and in any event the reasons for the workers. With the expert acknowledged that all energy - adds Polverini - Lakes ruled by strengthening the union confederal structure and allowing the final Cisnal entrenched in the Italian labor market. " Ivo
Lakes, in fact, succeeds in transforming what was a small union of a political party strongly discriminated against (it was the social issue of the MSI) national organization rooted in a free and popular field that can win the role of trade union strength of the third country, or indeed the only alternative to union strength consociativismo Triple-Confindustria, why worry about doing even the Communist Party and its media, gaining the attention of the media with no political connections or flexible attitudes, but by direct contact with workers and an endless series of meetings in factories, crowded with national and local public events, meetings and updates with important paintings, with the notable growth of structures and members, with a clever counter-culture that develops through the creation of periodic information by each category of the union, the Confederation of the weekly "The goal of social and especially cultural monthly" free pages ", directed by Lakes, which became the principal organ of the national trade union culture.
So the most difficult years of the union become an alternative, thanks to the "energy expert" by Ivo Lakes, the wonderful years of Cisnal, a union of people, a revolutionary trade union, a union free at last, as its leader.
Domenico Riccio
