Cesare Damiano (born 15 June 1948 in

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) is an Italian politician, member of the Democratic Party. A former leading member of the

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trade union, Damiano has been a part of the Democrats of the Left national secretaryship since 2001. He is a former Minister of Labour.

Biography

In 1970 Cesare Damiano enrolled in the FIOM-

of which he was corporate representative, responsible for the work among the employees and officer (from 1974); in 1976 he entered the secretariat of the Fiom-CGIL of

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and from 1980 to 1989 he was general secretary of the same syndicate in

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. At the beginning of 1991 he became secretary general of the Chamber of Labor of Turin; in November of the same year he was appointed deputy general secretary of the FIOM and occupied this post until 1996. In March 2000 he was appointed General Secretary of the CGIL of

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, a position he held until December 2001, when he was elected to the National Secretariat of the

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left (, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. Positioned on the centre-left, the DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger ...

. In 2006 Damiano was appointed Minister of the Labour in the

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. He was also MP from 2006 to 2018. In the 2018 general election he has not been re-elected.Elezioni 2018, quelli rimasti fuori
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Damiano, Cesare 1948 births Living people People from Cuneo Democrats of the Left politicians Democratic Party (Italy) politicians