To give the news about the fact, was Fio-Cgil from Pavia, the labor union to which Vecchia {belonged, was enrolled} The Italian sentence lacks something very important: the verb in the principal proposition; this is ok only in very, very short sentences (made of only one proposition) where the implicit verb can easely be guessed at, or in titles for newspapers reportages. A dare la notizia dell'accaduto, {e` stata, fu} la Fiom-Cgil di Pavia, sindacato al quale Vecchia era iscritto. Another form is: La notizia dell'accaduto {l'ha data la, e` stata data dalla} FIom-Cgil ...