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Metalworkers' Federation
The Metalworkers' Federation (french: Fédération des travailleurs de la métallurgie, FTM) is a trade union representing workers in the metallurgical industry in France. The union was founded in May 1909 and brought together the Federal Union of Metallurgical Workers, the National Federation of Molders, the Federation of Mechanical Model Workers, and a small part of the Federation of Mechanical Workers. It is affiliated with the General Confederation of Labour. It was joined by the Federation of Drivers, Conductors and Mechanics in 1910, and the Federation of Tinsmiths and Boxworkers in 1912. In 1921, about half the union's membership split away, joining the United General Confederation of Labour (CGTU). However, in 1922, it was strengthened when the Federation of Car and Aviation Workers joined. The CGTU unions rejoined in 1936, and this led to rapid growth for the union, with membership reaching 832,000 by 1937, and for the first time, the FTM became the largest trade un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Confederation Of Labour (France)
The General Confederation of Labour (french: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It is the largest in terms of votes (32.1% at the 2002 professional election, 34.0% in the 2008 election), and second largest in terms of membership numbers. Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995–96 (it had more than doubled when François Mitterrand was elected president in 1981), before increasing today to between 700,000 and 720,000 members, slightly fewer than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT). According to the historian M. Dreyfus, the direction of the CGT is slowly evolving, since the 1990s, during which it cut all organic links with the French Communist Party (PCF), in favour of a more moderate stance. The CGT is concentrating its attention, in particular since the 1995 general strikes, to tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United General Confederation Of Labour
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National Federation Of Miners
The National Federation of Miners (french: Fédération nationale des travailleurs du sous-sol, FNTSS-CGT) was a trade union representing miners in France. The union traced its history to 1883, when Michel Rondet of the Union of Miners of the Loire called a conference in Saint-Étienne. This attracted eleven unions from seven regions of France, with representatives including Émile Basly from Pas-de-Calais and Jean-Baptiste Calvignac from Carmaux. The federation endured, but remained relatively small, membership peaking at 20,000 in 1891, and falling back to 12,000 in 1912. In 1906, it affiliated to the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). The National Federation of Slate Workers merged into the union in 1911, which renamed itself as the Federation of the Mining and Quarrying Industry, then in 1912 it became the National Federation of Miners and Allied Trades. After World War I, 25,000 miners in Alsace-Lorraine transferred to the French union, and by 1920 the union membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Workers' Federation
The Railway Workers' Federation (french: Fédération des Cheminots) is the largest trade union representing workers on the railways in France. History The union was founded in 1917 as the National Federation of Railway Workers of France, the Colonies and the Protectorate Countries, and affiliated to the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). In 1921, many members left to join the United General Confederation of Labour, but they rejoined in 1935, and this took membership from 165,000 to a claimed 320,000. In 1939, union members who refused to denounce the German-Soviet pact were expelled, and in 1942, Pierre Semard, the union's former leader, was executed by the Vichy regime. The union was banned during World War II, but reformed after the war, and in 1946 it had 394,000 members. In 1947, many on the right-wing of the union left to join Workers' Force. The CGT union remained the largest on the railways, and regularly undertook industrial action in defense of pay and conditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Federation Of Textile Workers
The National Federation of Textile Industry Workers (french: Fédération nationale ouvrière de l'industrie textile) was a trade union representing workers in the textile industry in France. The union was founded in November 1891 by unions based in Lyon, Lille, Roubaix and Fourmies. Initially based in Lyon, in 1902 its headquarters moved to Lille. From 1903, it published a national journal, ''Le Travailleur du Textile''. The union was long the largest affiliated to the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), with more than 100,000 members by 1920, and more than 350,000 by 1937. In 1948, a minority of the union left to form the rival National Federation of Textiles The National Federation of Textiles (french: Fédération nationale des Textiles) was a trade union representing workers in the textile industry in France. The union was founded on 15 February 1948, by former members of the National Federation o ....{{cite web , title=VANHONACKER Maurice , url=https://maitron.fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Resistance
The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régime during the World War II, Second World War. Resistance Clandestine cell system, cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis (World War II), Maquis in rural areas) who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allies of World War II, Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The Resistance's men and women came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, Aristocratic family, aristocrats, conservative Catholic Church, Roman Catholics (including priests and Yvonne Beauvais, nuns), Protestantis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederal Federation Of Metalworkers
FO Metals (french: FO Metaux), is a trade union representing metalworkers in France, and those in related trades such as electrical and aerospace workers. The union was established in April 1948, as the Confederal Federation of Metalworkers. Its founders were former members of the General Confederation of Labour-affiliated Metalworkers' Federation who objected to the influence of the French Communist Party in their union, and wished to affiliate to Workers' Force The General Confederation of Labor - Workers' Force (french: Confédération Générale du Travail - Force Ouvrière, or simply , FO), is one of the five major union confederations in France. In terms of following, it is the third behind the CGT .... By 1995, the union had 25,000 members. External links *{{official website, http://www.fo-metaux.org/ References Metal trade unions Trade unions established in 1948 Trade unions in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambroise Croizat
Ambroise Croizat (28 January 1901 – 11 February 1951) was a French syndicalist and communist politician. As the minister of Labour and of Social security, he founded the French Social security system (or social safety net) and the retirement system, between 1945 and 1947. He was also the general secretary of the Fédération des travailleurs de la métallurgie CGT. Biography Early life His father, Antoine Croizat, was a blue-collar worker,Jean Marie Mayeur, Arlette Schweitz, ''Les Parlementaires de la Seine sous la Troisième République'', vol. 1. and his mother, Louise Jeannette Piccino, was a weaver. Ambroise started working in a plant at the age of 13, when his father was drafted in 1914. As a metalworker trainee, he also followed evening classes, and became a toolmaker near Lyon. Early politics In 1917, Croizat joined the Young Socialist Movement, and then the Parti socialiste (French socialist party) in 1918. He began supporting the Section française de l'Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Desmaison
Jean Desmaison (12 October 1931 – 17 September 1991) was a French trade union leader. Born in Limoges, Desmaison's mother died when he was three, and he was largely raised by his grandmother. He became a miller in 1951, and joined the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC), in order to take part in a strike at his workplace, despite being an atheist. He then spent a year doing military service, and when he returned to work in 1954, he decided to instead join the General Confederation of Labour's affiliate, the Metalworkers' Federation. He soon became branch secretary of the union, then in 1956 became deputy general secretary of its local section. In 1960, he joined the French Communist Party (PCF), and in 1962, he began working full-time for the union's secretariat, focusing initially on electronics workers, and then on the aviation sector. In 1966, Desmaison was elected as general secretary of the Trade Union International of Workers in the Metal Industry, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Martinez (trade Unionist)
Philippe Martinez (born 1 April 1961 in Suresnes, Seine department) is a French trade unionist. He has been the general secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) from 2015 to 2023. Biography Early life His father, born at in France, fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Philippe Martinez's mother comes from Santander in northern Spain. Philippe Martinez attended school in Rueil-Malmaison, west of Paris. He engaged into politics as a high school student, first joining the Young Communist Movement and later the French Communist Party. Professional career A technician in the metalworking industry, he worked for the Renault factory of Boulogne-Billancourt from 1982, before he was transferred to the Center for Motor Research at Rueil-Malmaison. A union member since 1984, he became the CGT central union delegate at Renault. He left the French Communist Party in 2002 since he disagreed with Robert Hue who wanted to disestablis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Unions Established In 1909
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services, i.e. trading things without the use of money. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and letter of credit, paper money, and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to specialization and the division of labour, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
