He was 72 and sick. As a worker he was part of the CGIL and then coordinated the retirees. He served in the PCI, in the Democratic Party and then joined Article 1
SAN GIORGIO DI NOGARO. With the death of Eros Barusso, the CGIL pensioners union, local politics and the voluntary sector lose one of their most significant representatives. Missing yesterday at the Latisana hospital, where he was hospitalized due to an illness, 72-year-old Eros Barusso, from San Giorgio di Nogaro, was known for his social and political commitment.
He leaves behind a sister, three brothers and a partner. The date of the funeral has not yet been set. Eros Barusso was originally from Planais, a locality that was part of the municipality of Torviscosa and which, with the construction of the Aussa Corno industrial area, passed to the municipality of San Giorgio di Nogaro: at that moment he and his family moved to San Giorgio becoming sangiorgino to all effects.
Barusso was among the first to be hired in the first company established: Marzotto, and it is there that his trade union activity in the CGIL begins, when the latter begins to give negative signals and there is talk of the closure of the factory. Barusso was part of the works council and his battles in favor of the workers he supported in the strikes to protect the workplace remain known.
When the company is divided, Barusso passes to Aulan, then to Cogolo and finally to the Socopel cooperative. It was the 1980s. As his friend Lucio Garbin recalls, “Eros was part of the provincial directorate of chemical workers of the CGIL and the main reasons that led him to work in the union were and always have been the protection of workers’ health, their economic conditions and life quality”.
As a retiree he coordinated the Spi Cgil in the provincial direction, but he was also involved in the Auser for the transport of cancer patients and actively participated as a volunteer in the “fields of legality” for the recovery of assets seized from the mafia, so much so that every year he went to Caserta or Catania, to name two examples, to carry out those recovery projects of the fields in favor of young people, giving birth to orange groves, olive groves and snail farms. Barusso was a member of the militant left in the PCI first and then in the Democratic Party until he was part of the local secretary.
For about a year, however, he had joined Article 1 together with his friend Pietro Del Frate. For ten years, every year, he went to visit some concentration camps. Nice and jovial, he had many friends with whom he loved to spend the evenings, which he recounted: «He was unable to complete the book he was writing about his family, the Barussos. The disease took him away too soon. ‘
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