With his activity report to the delegated 1

In 2003, the Secretary General of the CFDT François Chérèque, welcomed the first departures of the Confederation of the activists disagree with support from the central to the reform of the pension as a "clarification". "Clarification", yet was discussed yesterday afternoon, at the opening of the 46th Congress of the Central, but this time, it is the line of the plant which was in sights.

With his activity report to the delegated 1.868 meeting until Friday in Grenoble, the Secretary General of the plant has recalled outset that "many militants questioned the path that took the CFDT. Stressing that "doubts emerged and that a need for clarification and exchange manifested", it is attached to demonstrate that the Organization had not failed.

"Basement of identity".

If it has recognized, it does however not dwell on the "errors" which may have been committed "in the difficult conduct of the case" retreats. He knew without doubt that the participants do. It failed at the beginning of the debate on the report of activity that will continue throughout the day today, before the vote, expected tomorrow morning. Indeed, many returned on the episode and the crisis that it has opened in the CFDT. The hostile reaction of the room against Françoise Lareur of the Ile-de-France regional Union, when she said that "those who have slammed the door of the CFDT are of another age", shows that the departures are far from to be limited to only reported internal opponents. Many activists came to the microphone said it.

François Chérèque well understood that called, from yesterday to "reclaim". It is the world that has changed, the CFDT, has "step change", and if it has "difficulty", it is because it has "step fled its responsibilities", he explained, fraying which is for him "basement of identity" organization.

First, "the fight against inequalities" more "complex", which therefore cannot "being a mere extension of our battles of yesterday", "this is the meaning of our battle against the CPE". Then, solidarity, "between occupations and between the generations", that "it is not enough to proclaim". Finally, in addition to the "commitment to social democracy and Europe", "action for employment" which would impose "a real economic regulation and social European."

Polite applause

"Our choices were sometimes difficult and controversial, but the time is not come often validate", risked François Chérèque. The room seemed to acquiesce. Previously sluggish, it widely applauded his analysis of the pension reform. "Renounce weigh, it was leaving the field open to all slipping and in particular to the development of an individual capitalization," he said, stressing that "it is to the credit of those who are committed should be the result and alone". It has been standing then ovation, like when he referred to the early departure of employees having started 280,000 to work very young people.

This is not the only time where the ears of Bernard Thibault, present in the room, had to whistle. If the polite applause covered the jeers at the announcement of his arrival, in contrast to the reception to the leader of the CFDT to the Congress of the CGT, François Chérèque has not hesitated to stigmatize, on intermittent workers, "those that we like so much that they agree for once", targeting without naming the CGT and FO. The Secretary General of the CGT regretted for its part, on the margins of the debate, "the lack of analysis of the virtues of the unitary Trade Union action" in the speech of his counterpart of the CFDT.