2023-04-19 13:45:14
Marylise Léon, in the center, with Laurent Berger at her side and the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, her fist raised. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS
PORTRAIT – After 18 years with the CFDT, La Mancelle will take over from Laurent Berger on June 21.
After the CGT, it is the turn of the CFDT to pass a new torch. Laurent Berger announced this Wednesday his departure, scheduled for June 21, after eleven years at the head of the CFDT. He will thus hand over to his number two, Marylise Léon. In the columns of MondeLaurent Berger describes it as “dynamic“, with a “understanding of the world of work which is strong, sometimes finer than the [sienne]for example on the issue of new forms of employment». «She fought vigorously during the unemployment insurance negotiations and she is convinced that the ecological transition must be done in a socially just way. She is appreciated within the house, she is close to people, humanhe continues.
And for good reason, it has been 18 years since Marylise Léon joined the ranks of the CFDT. This original Mancelle studied in a high school in Sarthe, before continuing her studies at the faculty of Angers and completing her university course in Créteil in Val-de-Marne. In the 2000s, she landed her first job in a motorway company and specialized in pollution control issues, according to a 2019 interview with the Telegram. Marylise Léon then became a staff representative in a consulting firm, which has seven employees.
Two years after the drama of the AZF accident in Toulouse, which occurred in 2003, she is hired by the CFDT chemistry-energy for “help activists contribute to risk prevention through their work, for example by checking that reality is in line with what is planned on paper“. For this mother of two, it’s just “after their birth that I was made interesting proposals“laughs Marylise Léon. She rose through the ranks one by one, becoming Confederal National Secretary from June 2014 to June 2018 and focused on sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, industrial and energy policy, social dialogue and representativeness.
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“A good trade unionist is not someone easy”
In 2018, she became Deputy Secretary General alongside Laurent Berger and she was re-elected in 2022.A good trade unionist is not necessarily easy, especially in negotiations“, she underlined in 2019. Today, at 46, Marylise Léon constitutes a choice of continuity, according to Sébastien Mariani, deputy secretary general of the Transport and Environment federation of the CFDT and the railway workers branch. The latter recognizes in the future leader of the CFDT qualities of listening, proximity to the field and flexibility in positions despite her tenacious commitment. “It’s the best solution we could imagine for this transition and I have no doubt that Marylise will live up to the responsibilities granted to her”welcomes Sébastien Mariani.
In the columns of Weekly unionismwhich lists CFDT news, Marylise Léon has already called for mobilization “historicalon May 1 to protest the government’s pension reform. “In this context, there is no doubt that the social resentment born of the deafness of the executive in the face of a peaceful union mobilization, and on a scale not seen for decades, will persist.“, she said Tuesday. May 1 will therefore be a decisive day, both for the demonstrators but also for the representativeness of the CFDT.
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