General Union of Growers

The General Union of Growers (Italian: Unione Generale Coltivatori, UGC) is a trade union representing self-employed farmers and smallholders in Italy.

The union was founded in 1983, through a merger involving the Italian Federation of Sharecroppers and Smallholders. Like that union, it affiliated to the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions. By 1998, the union had 70,659 members.[1] Pietro Monelli became president of the union in 2014, at which time it still claimed more than 70,000 members.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 405–408. ISBN 0333771125.
  2. ^ "Unione generale coltivatori, il modenese Pietro Minelli nuovo presidente nazionale". Modena Today. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2020.