2023-06-06 18:40:20
DECRYPTION – The arrival of Christiane Benner, a revolution in the very masculine central “metalworkers”.
After Sophie Binet at the CGT and soon Marylise Léon at the CFDT, the feminization of the management of the major trade unions crossed the Rhine. Barring an unlikely twist, Christiane Benner will be elected at the end of October as head of IG Metall, which claims to be the largest branch union in the world, with 2.1 million members.
His predecessors had the profile for the job. Toolmakers, fitter or blacksmith: the training of the former heads of IG Metall automatically qualified them for the job. Before becoming the head of the powerful German organization, Christiane Benner can claim, by way of industrial experience, to have worked for five years for a machine tool manufacturer. As a bilingual secretary.
It is however this 55-year-old woman who should be this fall by the union delegates gathered in congress. The twelfth holder of the post since the war, she will be the first president of “IG”. This slender woman writes history in…
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