Confédération française démocratique du travail
The Confédération française démocratique du travail (CFDT) (French Democratic Trade Union Confederation) is the largest trade union confederation in France with around 800,000 members .
The CFDT was founded in 1964 when the majority of the members of the Christian trade union confederation Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens (CFTC) decided in favor of secularization and the renaming of the CFDT. The CFDT turned from now on to socialist ideas. However, about a tenth of its members subsequently left the association and re-founded the CFTC.
In its early years, the CFDT was politically close to the Parti socialiste unifié (PSU) and thus represented a socialism of self-government ("socialisme autogestionnaire"), from 1974 onwards to the "more modern" wing of the Parti socialiste (PS). In the meantime, however, the CFDT is largely politically independent and, for example, supported the conservative Prime Minister Alain Juppé in 1995 in the implementation of highly controversial welfare state reforms.
The main competing organizations are the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) and the Force ouvrière (FO).
Acting General Secretary is Laurent Berger , who took over from François Chérèque in November 2012 , who headed the CFDT from 2002 to 2012.
The CFDT is a member of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). In the membership list of the IGB, membership is given as 861,146 (as of November 2017).
Web links
Single receipts
- ^ National Trade Union Confederations (list of member organizations). European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), accessed on July 6, 2018 .
- ^ List of Affiliated Organizations. (pdf, 2.2 MB) International Trade Union Confederation, February 6, 2018, p. 3 , accessed on July 6, 2018 (English, as of November 2017).