Strike of doctors, train controllers… why unions are overtaken by collectives

Laurent Berger, at the head of the first union in France, sees it as a signal of “alert”. “If we do not consider the union fact, (…) the representatives of the employees elected in their rightful place, we will have this type of initiative which will develop”, warned the boss of the CFDT Thursday, December 22 on RMC. Twice during these end-of-year celebrations, at the SNCF and then among liberal doctors, calls for a strike that disrupted the daily lives of many French people were issued by groups outside the unions.