2023-06-21 08:01:39
The secretary general of the CFDT leaves his functions Wednesday, June 21. The opportunity to take stock of developments in trade union action, which he says is moving away from his clichés.
Laurent Berger and Marylise Léon, May 16, 2023, in Matignon (AFP / BERTRAND GUAY)
At 54, Laurent Berger passes the torch of the first French trade union organization to its number 2, Marylise Léon, during a great day called “June 21 of the CFDT”, at the Zénith de Paris. Questioned on the antenna of France 2 on his years at the head of the union, Laurent Berger assumes his mandate, evoking the evolutions of the unionism.
“Trade unionism has a somewhat outdated, outdated image of Epinal”,
judged the future-ex-leader of the CFDT, Wednesday, June 21.
This image is “a man, rather old, rather angry, who yells. That’s not unionism!”,
considers the leader of the CFDT, who is delighted with the transformations observed according to him on the sidelines of the mobilization once morest the pension reform.
As for the protests?
“Deep down, I rather like it.” But “I have always considered that it was not the alpha and the omega of trade union action”,
he added.
With Marylise Léon, “there is no change of line, but there is a change of style”
The one who took over from François Chérèque in November 2012 leaves with the feeling of having “done the job”: passed before the CGT in 2018, the CFDT emerges, according to him, strengthened from the protest movement of the last six months, at the Like the other unions, even if the reform will apply. “Today for trade unionism it’s a form of productive defeat, what happened. We lost on the text but it was productive on the image we gave of trade unionism, of the world of work , and the strength that was ours (…) We did not walk for nothing”, he analyzed on June 8 on franceinfo.
As for the future of the CFDT, now led by Marylise Léon, Laurent Berger sees it in continuity.
“There is no change of line. But there is a change of style, I wish”,
he concluded.
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