The 12th annual barometer on the perception of workplace discrimination, published by France's Defender of Rights (an independent administrative authority which, among other things, is in charge of combatting discrimination) and drawn up alongside the ILO, is for the first time focused on trade union discrimination. The results indicate that almost one working person out of three (29%) and more than one out of every two unionised members of staff (52%) believe that trade union discrimination takes place either often or very often. The results also suggest that there is a widespread sentiment that trade union involvement can have negative consequences for one’s job and is the number of reason for not getting involved in trade union activity.
Discrimination sufficiently widespread to be prevent involvement in trade union activity. Respondents’ answers to the question “in your opinion, what dissuades or prevents workers from getting involved in trade union activity?” supplied a range of indications. The sample of people representing those within the active population gave the following reasons for not unionising: the negative view of their management (“fear of punishment by the management”) was cited by 42% of respondents; the impres
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