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Italian Federation of Commerce, Hotel and Service Workers

trade union of Italy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ3740966 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Italian Federation of Commerce, Hotel and Service Workers (Italian: Federazione Italiana Lavoratori Commercio Albergo Mensa e Servizi, FILCAMS) is a trade union representing workers in the service sector in Italy.

The union was founded in 1960, when the Italian Federation of Trade and Allied Workers merged with the Italian Federation of Hotel and Cafe Workers. Like its predecessors, it affiliated to the Italian General Confederation of Labour. By 2023, it had 599.607 members, of whom 41,10% worked in commerce, 36,46% in the services sector and 22,44% in the tourism industry.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Italian Federation of Commerce, Hotel and Service Workers” as trade union of Italy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Italian, Federation and Commerce can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as trade union of Italy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3740966. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 2023.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Italian Federation of Commerce, Hotel and Service Workers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.