(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #246 - Elections in the Public Service: The balances are maintained (fr, it, pt)

 (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #246 - Elections in
the Public Service: The balances are maintained (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]

The first general elections in professional Public Service December 4, 2014 were under 
high tension with the revelations of the "case" Lepaon, which marred the CGT trade 
unionism and all the struggle. Maintaining balances should not prevent to return to some 
developments. ---- Professional elections Public Service December 4 were first marked by 
numerous failures, whatever the voting procedures. This now becomes a habit and it is not 
surprising that governments want to undermine the legitimacy of representative bodies, but 
it is not a reason not to remember. Participation remains at just over 50%. ---- On the 
results, overall balances are maintained: CGT decrease in each side of the public service 
(State, local, hospital) but is the first organization on the whole (23.1%, or -2.3), 
Partners progresses to the state and in the territorial, back in the hospital collects 
6.8% in total (0.2), the FSU accounts for 8% on all but loses much in its "strong" 
sectors[1]. UNSA (+1), FO (0.5), CFDT (0.1) rose slightly. These findings are also worth 
roughly for elections to the RATP, Orange, Post and EDF. No "push FO" as some media have 
been able to proclaim, or very localized, finally, the CFDT is far to go first and remains 
at 4% behind the CGT. Given the difficulties of the current period, it would almost be 
satisfactory.

Progression field teams

Details of local votes, however, shows that where the employee-es are in contact with 
militant union teams, there is a progression, but this vote can be very different from the 
national vote. Clearly, if certain employee-es expressed a distrust of trade unionism in 
general struggle unionism in particular or confederation CGT Lepaon, they continue to vote 
for the Union activists who fight locally. This suggests that the case was finally Lepaon 
had little impact where union teams are closer to the employee-es. One element to move 
forward in the discussions that are going through the CGT: it is indeed easy to shoot on 
sight confederal bureaucracy without questioning the mandates to local management and 
middle or on the functioning of trade union teams.

About FSU, any union filed left struggling to maintain themselves in the period, but this 
is not enough to explain such a decline. First of corporatism is seen as a dead end by 
part of the employee-es-es that are mobilized to recent years. FSU tried to get by first 
claiming to embody a union redial pole and then widening to the entire state civil 
service, two failures. So she has neither proposed nor reason to exist. However, it should 
relativize its decline: it remains the largest union in many areas.

Solidarity is maintained or increased in a number of sectors where unions are not called 
"South"[2], showing that should not be reduced to the single issue of the future name of 
the trade union Solidarity union and South unions, ongoing debate in this organization.

Finally, note the expression of a frankly reactionary wage labor, with an increase of FO 
and SNALC (National Union of secondary schools) in Education, the CFTC in higher education 
and research. The collective Racine (National Front in education) has managed to 
politicize this by calling for a vote SNALC and FO, which sparked a lousy FO response 
simply recalling its political independence. The CFTC was in turn supported by the 
Kingdom[3] logo on professions of faith.

Gregory (AL Orl?ans)

[1] - 4% in the primary - 6% in secondary and higher education.

[2] Public Finance, Weather, Water and Forestry.

[3] National Inter-University Union, bringing together personal and extreme right students.

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