For many struggle unionists, it was a given: as usual, the CFDT was
going to betray and blow up the inter-union. However, to everyone'ssurprise, this prognosis was thwarted. So much the better, but how toexplain it? Hypotheses. ---- One of the explanations for the unexpectedattitude of the CFDT in 2023 is that this confederation is going througha " strategic breakdown " : its policy of social support for capitalismhas certainly never brought anything to the proletariat... but it didthe CFDT bureaucracy, established as the privileged interlocutor ofemployers and the State... Except that today, this policy no longerseems to satisfy its adherent base. In 2017, the confederation supportedthe XXL Labor Law, which by creating the CSE weakened the staffrepresentative bodies. Result: the unions (including those affiliatedwith the CFDT), have more difficulty finding union members ready tocommit or to start a new mandate. The CFDT has also suffered setbacks inprofessional elections, as in December 2022 in the hospital publicservice, where FO left it behind. Finally, its numbers are no longerprogressing, or even shrinking, despite the work of its " uniondevelopers ". So certainly, the CGT and Solidaires have also struggledin terms of numbers and votes... The difference is that the CFDT - it'sin its DNA - is focused on " negotiation ", avoiding maximum the priorand necessary balance of power; it is therefore destabilized when socialconflicts escalate. On the contrary, the strategy of the CGT andSolidaires is based above all on the struggles; it therefore offers thema priori more opportunities to strengthen themselves. The CFDT had beton the Macronist political project in 2017, to secure a place of choice.But in 2019, when she approved the plan to break pensions, the powerheld her for negligible quantity. In 2023, rebelote, the governmentrefused to negotiate, depriving the CFDT of its raison d'être. In 2021and 2022, certain clues already suggested that something was happeningwithin the CFDT. First, she rejected the government's injunction tovalidate a saving of 4 billion euros on the rights of the unemployed.Then came the confederal congress of June 2022. Against the orientationdocument, an amendment challenging any further increase in theretirement age, defended by the Interco de la Somme, was adopted by 67%of the mandates. At the time, this vote went unnoticed, because everyonethought that the Confederate leadership would overrule it, with theusual brutality. But Laurent Berger respected him. And in the localintersyndicales it was not uncommon to hear CFDT officials affirm thatBerger was " held " by this mandate to which the base was attached. Whatto conclude? Certainly not that the CFDT is making a strategic shifttowards the class struggle. This would suppose the entry into its midstof new militant generations imbued with a strong culture of struggle.But it is possible that the 2023 episode will set a precedent, withlasting internal repercussions. There is an interest, events haveproven, in better understanding what is really going on at the CFDT.Michel (UCL Vosges)https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Mais-quelle-mouche-a-donc-pique-la-CFDT_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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