Money from Nicola Zingaretti (as former president of the Lazio Region) to study the loneliness of the elderly. Public bodies, universities and ministries: the CGIL Foundation (Giuseppe Di Vittorio) hoards public funds and projects. The structure, 100% controlled by the union and on whose board Maurizio Landini sits, is another channel for draining money from the State to the CGIL. Il Giornale is able to reconstruct the river of money that has arrived in the Di Vittorio Foundation in the last three years thanks to a tested network: a figure equal to one million and 200 thousand euros. In 2022 the Foundation took home 410 thousand euros of public funds. Eight projects thanks to agreements with the Polytechnic of Milan, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of the Interior and Cultural Heritage. The most important piece of the cake is the financing of 190 thousand euros coming from Inail. It is a training project for small and medium-sized businesses. Another 161 thousand euros arrive from the Ministry of the Interior, thanks to European Fami funds, for a project to prevent and combat violence against foreign minors. Here the initiative is carried out in collaboration with the University of Bari.
Another project and another University: the Polytechnic of Milan. The figure is equal to 27 thousand euros. The Foundation is called to discuss new organizational models of digital work. Another 40 thousand euros come from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage to support the libraries. We remind you that the main function of the Foundation is to safeguard the book heritage of the CGIL. Obviously, thanks to public funds, the activity diverts to other objectives.
In 2023 things are worse: the Di Vittorio Foundation takes home just 160 thousand euros of public funds. The network does not change: Ministry of the Interior, Labor and Inail. Another 26 thousand euros arrive from the Polytechnic of Milan for a study on the effects of Covid on the world of work. In 2024, the body linked to the CGIL will make a splash in public funds: 650 thousand euros. The largest allocation comes thanks to the Ministry of Labour: 498 thousand euros, directly into the Foundation’s coffers, for the Discuss project. A project to train CGIL trade unionists. But Landini’s union doesn’t pay. Rather the State, through the Ministry of Labour. In 2024 the list is very long. From Milan to Perugia. The network in Landini’s men’s university works perfectly. The University of Perugia pays 28 thousand euros into the accounts of the Di Vittorio foundation, to explore new avenues in the world of work. Another 77 thousand euros come from Inail and 34 from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage for initiatives to support books. Even if with a small contribution, equal to 11 thousand euros, the Polytechnic of Milan is not missing. The system is quite oily. The network is tested. The Foundation, which also serves to distribute tasks to CGIL managers, lives thanks to state funds.
At the top of the Foundation is Francesco Sinopoli. Who is? He comes from the CGIL school union, of which he was general secretary. After his stint at CGIL-Scuola Landini placed him at the helm of the Foundation. Like a party built on a network of loyalists. If you go back over the years you discover other financing. Between the Conte Due and Draghi governments, the foundation grossed more than 1 million euros for its “various” activities. They range from workshops for sustainable development to the training of social actors, up to violence against foreign minors.
Even the Lazio Region, during the Zingaretti era, opened its purse strings.
On 22 July 2020 LazioInnova, an in-house company of the Lazio Region that deals with the internationalization of companies, wrote a check for 21 thousand and 179.02 euros to the CGIL foundation for the MySoli project. The aim of the initiative was to combat loneliness among the elderly.
