{"id":45442,"date":"2023-03-17T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sttk.fi\/?p=45442"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:56:09","slug":"luca-visentini-relieved-of-his-position-as-itucs-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sttk.fi\/en\/2023\/03\/17\/luca-visentini-relieved-of-his-position-as-itucs-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Visentini relieved of his position as ITUC\u2019s general secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The General Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has relieved <strong>Luca Visentini<\/strong>, who was elected as ITUC\u2019s general secretary in November, of his duties. The background to the decision lies in the suspicions of corruption raised concerning Visentini earlier before Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision resulted from a vote of 57 to 12. Of the 79 members, 71 were present. One member abstained from voting.<br>\u201cThe decision was made after a clear voting result, so there is little room for later criticism,\u201d says<strong> Antti Palola<\/strong>, the chair of STTK and a member of ITUC\u2019s General Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palola voted for the dismissal, as did the other Nordic representatives.<br>\u201cMember organisations of the Council of Nordic Trade Unions (NFS) are satisfied with the voting result. We have been actively pursuing this ever since the \u2018Luca-gate\u2019 was discovered\u201d, Palola says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meeting on 11 March, a decision was also made concerning temporary arrangements. Deputy general secretary Owen Tudor will continue as the acting general secretary until a new general secretary is appointed. The goal is to appoint the new general secretary in an extraordinary General Council meeting before May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ITUC\u2019s General Council also approved the investigations into allegations of misconduct concerning Luca Visentini and the related further actions. The goal is to clarify the confederation\u2019s use of money and transparency, as well as the transparency of campaign funding related to the election of the general secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: PES Communications<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The General Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has relieved Luca Visentini, who was elected as&#8230; ","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lead_paragraph":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"subject":[433],"class_list":["post-45442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","subject-trade-unions"],"acf":{"lead_paragraph":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Luca Visentini relieved of his position as ITUC\u2019s general secretary - 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