Emilio Gabaglio

He was active in the Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI), and was elected as its national president in 1969.

This led a right-wing minority to split away as the Workers' Christian Movement, and in 1971, Pope Paul VI publicly deplored the ACLI.

[1][2] Gabaglio stood down from the ACLI in 1972, and found work as head of the international department of CISL.

[1] In 1991, Gabaglio was elected as General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, in which role he faced the decline of some of its members organisations, but facilitated the admission of new federations from Eastern Europe.

From 2006, he was the European Affairs Counselor for the Italian Minister of Labour, then in 2009 became president of the Democratic Party's Work Forum.