Posted on 12 April 2017
Fabrizia Baduel Glorioso passed away a few days ago in Perugia.
She was born in Perugia on the 2 July 1927. As a law graduate she was involved from her youth in trade union activity within the ranks of the CISL and became Director of Research in the CISL’s international section from 1953 to 1965. She was subsequently appointed Director of the CISL International Relations office.
In the European sphere, Baduel Glorioso was a member of the EEC Economic and Social Committee, representing the CISL in the “Workers” group from September 1970 to September 1976 and member of the Office of the President of the EESC from September 1974 to September 1976. She was appointed President of the study group “ Establishment and Services” of the EESC section “Industry, Commerce, Crafts and Services” from 1974 to 1976, she was also spokesperson for various EESC study groups and member of numerous consultative committees.
In the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, she was alternate member of the Executive Committee from November 1969 to November 1974 and in the European Confederation of Trade Unions she was a full member of the Social Commission in the Trade Union Secretariat from 1965 to 1970.
Baduel Glorioso was the first woman to be elected president of the Economic and Social Committee from 1978 to 1980. From 1979 to 1984 she was elected to the European parliament on the Italian Communist Party ticket.
She signed a contract with the Historical Archives of the European Union to deposit her private papers in Florence on the 26 February 2003.