The time is not really self-congratulation for the thousand of activists of the CGT gathered in Dijon, france, since last Sunday, for the 52nd congress of the organization. They have not only been overtaken by the CFDT, which became the first union of France in 2018, but also overwhelmed by the movement of the “yellow vests”, which began a few months ago. They know that their organization is going through a period of strong turbulence, and that it must be renewed in one way or another to try to recover from the influence.
“It is a congress of living and animated, which ponders on the reality of social movements,” said a militant in the transport sector. He refuses to see an exacerbation of internal divisions between the more “argumentative” and “reformists”.
Adopted at only 71 % of voters Tuesday, the balance sheet of the last three years the secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, is in any case far from unanimous. A hard kick to the number one …
