Landini, Camusso agree on 'social coalition' but no party

(ANSA) - Rome, March 17 - Susanna Camusso, head of the powerful CGIL trade union federation, said Tuesday that while her organization is willing to work on a social coalition it has no political aspirations.
    She spoke after she and Maurizio Landini, leader of the FIOM union, met and issued a statement saying it would be "useful" to work together on a social coalition.
    That would build on work that began last weekend when Landini met with social activists aimed at developing a group to lobby against government policies.
    The pair issued a joint statement after they met Tuesday.
    However, the CGIL also urged Landini to "wipe any ambiguity" away over whether this social coalition has political aspirations.
    Camusso said later that the CGIL did not want to change its work as a trade union federation.
    "We do not want to become substitutes...or creators of a new political formation," she said. "We think that we should remove any ambiguity. "The union has its political subjectivity but a strong autonomy and cannot be confused with the construction of a political movement," she said.