What is happened with youth is instructive

During the movement for the withdrawal of the SCE, unions made any route in the broader unit. The case is sufficiently rare to be stressed. This unit was guarantee of effectiveness. It was also an element of credibility to the young people themselves. There were for all the unions a strong stake in youth coaching. Let us not forget that they have an enormous challenge of generational renewal.

To the youth, the Union divisions took a sacred blow of old. The break-up, the fragmentation of trade unionism, which are unreadable to young generations, are equally for all the employees. The roots of the Union divisions lost in time. The thread of the history of trade unionism is hard enough living and embodied in the present of the employees that it identifies, other than for reasons of "shops", a number of divisions and opposition.

Throughout the 20th century, the Trade Union Unity was virtually impossible. Any breach of importance in the political field caused an earthquake in the labour field. The Congress of Tours in 1920, after the Russian Revolution caused a split and an injury in the first, CGT but more widely throughout the Union movement. Subordination to the PCF and the Comintern was the origin of major divisions, including those of 1947, which gave birth to FO and autonomous trade unions. All attempts at reconciliation, unity of action, of convergence broke against a kind of intangible cut.

Intangible It was true yesterday... Since the fall of the Berlin wall, many things have moved. The World Federation of trade unions (WFTU) has disappeared. FCP is weakened. The CGT has hired a transformation under the leadership of Louis Viannet and Bernard Thibault. Many things have changed..., except paradoxically Union landscape. A desperate burst and divided landscape! Five, six, seven, eight "acronyms" who share less than 10 of employees...

Yet, the major ideological confrontations have disappeared. The CFDT and the CGT are freed of their reports, ambiguous to one with the PS, and almost organic with the PCF. All confederations profess trade union independence and say want to consolidate employees what they are and not as ideology would be it. All are looking for diversity and pluralism, only way to adapt to labor, which is more established on the basis of a class membership, or welded by a surdéterminante ideological vision. All say take into account the new relationship between the collective and the individual. But now questions from employees to the trade unions turn interchangeably with each other. The debate is a debate between a transverse debate organizations. This joint debate to all trade unions must become the matter of a common approach. What is happened with youth is instructive. An issue also important that the insertion of the young lead in fine and thanks to the young people themselves a Union approach could be that common.

Let's not be naive, the issues of opportunity, tactics, or even leadership remain. But they are part of the internal debate to all unions. Unless you do, deliberately and artificially, a point of cleavage to try to climb higher up the greasy pole. In the trade unions, also, the idea that each misfortune is the happiness of another is a decoy. Employees and unions together lose when the division prevails. The division and the collapse of the trade unions have become unbearable luxury. Excluding exceptional period, the reality is that trade union influence is receding. The success of the movement against the CPE, as historic as, will remain without next day if there is not quickly "capitalization" of unit work and extension in other fields, employment and poverty for example.

In addition, the rule of the agreement in the negotiations, even more necessary since the Fillon law, could help between organizations and enable them to get out of their game. For the CGT, an organization which camperait permanently on an approach "wrestling classes", without ever going to the Act of contractual commitment. For the CFDT, an organization which would "signatory" in principle, little thought for the consequences of the agreements of lowest social. For TF, an organization that would be unable to because of his social conservatism evolution... Can we stick to a look also frozen on unionism

The question of unity as perspective and target groups would be a daring Act, a signal of the employees and the unemployed. An opportunity to address all issues related to the transformation of labour and the French society as a whole. Consider a unitary approach, the traditional way, as a result or as a lever to transform things, with the support of labour and make the trade unionism of the 21st century What is safe, it is that today ' hui monte in society, for workers, youth a sense of unity.