Unions challenged to retain new members

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2023-07-10 20:12:45

Despite the end of the mobilization days (here, in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, on February 7), many other sites could serve as growth drivers. Lilian Cazabet/Hans Lucas via Reuters

DECRYPTION – The pension reform has allowed the arrival of new profiles, recruited more online.

Beginning of a new era or anecdotal flash in the pan? Capable of putting aside their differences to form a solid inter-union and of mobilizing millions of people, in a responsible and framed climate, while the political class railed against each other in the National Assembly, the unions also experienced a return to favor brutal than unexpected. Beyond a straightened popularity curve, all the centrals saw membership rise again, i.e. 43,000 to the CFDT (out of a total of 613,000 inserts) or 32,000 to the CGT (out of around 530,000), according to the latest figures put forward by their management. However, these data should be taken with a grain of salt, as these are total memberships, from which departures must be subtracted. The CGT actually estimates the net gain at 15,000 while the CFTC records a jump of 30%, compared to 2022.

The challenge now is to retain these new profiles now that the sequence of retirements has been shot. «On…

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