In times of crisis its corporatist speech won

Bernard Thibault, win by K.O: the CGT emerged winner of the agrarian elections Wednesday, at the expense of the CFDT and FO, hit by a net decline in their score. 33.8 Of the vote, the CGT WINS 1.6 points, progresses in all sections, puts an end to 30 years of erosion of its score and reinforces his first place. She managed his gamble to take advantage of the social climate and concerns arising from the crisis. Hammering to be returning "a social test", Bernard Thibault won the vote with a very challenging, even put parentheses speech, the campaign, the reformist turn hired by its central. These results were "a real meaning in the current context;" "this is a message addressed to the Government and employers on social policy and economic implementation", he commented. This protest thrust also highly benefited in solidarity (South), credited with 3.8 of the votes (1.5 in 2002), for which "it shows that there is a place for trade unionism of struggle."

In contrast, the more reformist trade unions accuse the blow. With 8.9 of the vote ( 0.7 point), the CFTC, victim of its internal strife and uncertainty about its future, limit case-sensitive. But it is preparing to difficulties if she chooses to remain isolated. Declined by 3 points, the CFDT (22.1) is the hardest. "Disappointed", François Chérèque, its Secretary General, "assume". Nevertheless point to the record level of abstention only 25.3 of employees have voted (read below) to highlight that "is a confirmation that this vote is not valid for this type of elections". To reassure his troops, he also noted that the vote "does not reflect the good results that the CFDT records currently in the professional elections."

"Problem of interpretation".

FO, the other big loser of elections, considers that low participation "is a problem of interpretation of results", which does "not reflect the development" of its settlements in the private sector. Voice. Its leader, Jean-Claude Mailly, hoped to be rewarded for his persistence in the Government. But if he claimed much, he soon obtained, and the positioning of its Confederation lack of clarity. Now, FO is even potentially concurrencé in its status as third French Union by the merger, the next year, the Unsa and GSC, both outputs enhanced polling.

Already strong in the public sector, the first, with 6.2 of the vote, confirmed its growing presence in private. In times of crisis, its corporatist speech won. With 8.2 of the vote, the second is also significantly. Above all, it takes first place in the college coaching (27.9 against 23 for the CFDT). There including received a legal change: since the last election, private teachers, who were attached to the college coaching and vote massively CFDT, had taken away the right to vote in the tribunals. With a mattress of 14.4 of the vote, the GSC-Unsa pole "is now unavoidable", welcomed Alain Olive (Unsa). But the balance between the two teams will be difficult to find.

Employers more mobilized

A lesser issue, the poll in the employer College experienced a participation (32.25) and was marked by the progression of the Association of associations of employers in the social economy (eyes). With a more significant number of lists this year, she gets 19 of the vote, almost two times more than in 2002. Not what worry DEU (union Medef, CGPME, UPA, UNAPL and FNSEA), keeps 72.1 of the vote.