France: national union landscape stays the same after representativeness reform

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The representativeness reform of 2008 did not turn the French union landscape upside down. The CGT is still the biggest union followed by the CFDT. FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC (which came close to being disqualified) all qualified as representative unions for the 4 years to come with over 8% of the votes at the professional election in the private sector. This is what comes out of this first which maintains the status quo for the next 4 years. (Ref. 130216)
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The news is out. On Friday, March 29, the Ministry of Labor revealed national trade union figures, measured by the votes in the 2009-2012 professional elections in businesses with 11+ employees, in the special SME ballot of 2012 and in the Chambers of Agriculture elections of January 2013. Over 5 million employees took part.

And the outcome is, the 5 major confederations, CGT, CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC, got their representativeness certificate to remain at the national bargaining table for th

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