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Who we are

The Gilda degli Insegnanti is the only Professional Association with union purposes that is representative. Its aim is to represent and protect, on a professional and cultural level, teachers of the Italian public school system of every order and grade. One joins the Gilda as teachers who feel the pride and pleasure of their profession.

A bit of history
It was founded in 1988, as an offshoot of the Base Committees that were being established throughout Italy in those years: from that experience, the happy intuition of the need to get personally involved, without delegating to traditional unions and professional unionists the representation of teachers' salary and professional claims, is kept alive; from that experience, the "ideological turn" that quite a few prominent figures of that spontaneous movement tried to give it was wisely rejected.

The word Gilda is the name of the medieval guilds of arts and crafts that represented a break from feudal power, just as the Gilda degli Insegnanti is a break from the traditional union.

The symbol of the Gilda is the jester who moves lightly forward carrying an owl in his hand, symbolizing imagination and wisdom.