<- Hard dé e: 0.022869110107422 sec -> André Bergeron, former Secretary General of Workers Power (1963-1989), died in the night at the age of 92, said Saturday AFP number a FO, Jean-Claude Mailly.
The former leader of FO died in Belfort, where he lived, said Jean-Claude Mailly.
“Activists FO are in trouble,” said FO in a statement. “Andre Bergeron will have a profound impact on social and economic life, during a period when a lot of progress and social gains were achieved through collective bargaining,” said the union.
Born on 1 January 1922, André Bergeron, son of an employee of the station, became an apprentice typographer at age 14, in a print of the Territory of Belfort, taking part in strikes in 1936, when the Popular Front. After the Second World War and the years of forced labor in Austria, in 1948 he participated in the creation of FO, the militants came from the ranks of the CGT.
He refuses ministerial portfolios offered Giscard and Chirac
became secretary general of Force worker in 1963, André Bergeron takes center of the social scene. During the events of May 1968, Bergeron gets the employers that the hourly minimum wage be increased to 3 francs, while the CGT and Jacques Chirac, asked by the Prime Minister at the time Georges Pompidou had agreed on 2.70 francs . It is offered several times by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and Jacques Chirac a ministerial portfolio, but declines all these stresses.
At the “shock” of May 1981 created by the victory of François Mitterrand the presidential election, Bergeron, with its old SFIO fiber remains behind. Conversely, “in principle and its contents,” the joint program of the left, it is against the entry of communists in government and expressed warm “with solemnity and history,” reads its Memoirs.
Submitted by its publisher as “the quiet father of French syndicalism,” Andre Bergeron has led his troops avoiding the clash head. He has been the glue of the motley conglomerate (Trotskyites, socialists, Chirac and unbiased) that was his confederation. For 26 years, André Bergeron, embodied a decidedly European reformist trade unionism turned towards compromise, FO then winning as the preferred partner of business and the state.
“belief “proclaimed
Its simplicity was one of its strengths. Married to Cynthia Monnier, an employee at Felix Potin, this secular austere Protestant origin lived much of his life in a council flat Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine). Very “French way” with its eternal gray suits, he always fled receptions and worldly cocktails. “European belief” proclaimed he always regretted that Europe has “too obscured the social issues” while calling bluntly to “vote yes” to the European Constitution in May 2005.
President Institute of Social History, member of the European Trade Union Confederation, he chaired several times the board of the national unemployment insurance scheme, Unédic. André Bergeron has written several books including “Force working, open letter to a union” in 1975, “I claim the right direction” in 1996, and his “Memoirs” in 2002.
In February 1989, he leaving the scene of association and leaves room for Marc Blondel. The latter, in which Jean-Claude Mailly succeeded in February 2004, died last spring at the age of 75 years
Cambadélis. “Goodbye Andrew, Hi Comrade!”
In a statement, President Francois Hollande greets “a great union (…) who all his life embodied an offensive and reformist unions, participated in many social progress in our country (.. .) and was ready to compromise but uncompromising on principles. “
For the Prime Minister, André Bergeron,” man of conviction and character (…) has honored unionism. ” In a statement, Manuel Valls’ welcomes the promoter of trade union independence and key player in the social dialogue and contractual policy. ” Marisol Touraine, the social affairs minister, stands for its “to salute the memory of man, activist and leading figure of unionism that has contributed to the advancement of social dialogue.”
On Twitter The Minister of Labour and Social Dialogue, François Rebsamen makes an “emotional and respectful homage (…) a great trade unionist”
Meanwhile, former Minister of Labour in the Fillon government, the UMP Xavier Bertrand, welcomes a “great union activist and man of convictions.”
In a statement posted on the website of the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis welcomes ” a demanding leader who was fiercely committed to trade union independence. ” “Andre Bergeron is a man who meant a lot to me. A link that death just broke, but the memory will not dissolve, “continues the first secretary of the Socialist Party, which concludes his message of” Goodbye Andrew, Hi Comrade!. “
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