Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Philippe Martinez has one year to meet the challenges of the CGT – L’Express

Philippe Martinez has one year to meet the challenges of the CGT – L'Express

There it is taken twice, but since Tuesday, February 3, Philippe Martinez is officially general secretary of the CGT. With a score that in other times and if he was acting in the central Montreuil, we might have called Soviet: 93.4% of the vote during the vote at the national confederal Committee (NAC) of the union . The other members of the future national leadership (the office) were slightly less, with 88.8% of votes.

With this accolade, CGT ends the open waiting for the announcement of the resignation of Thierry Lepaon on 7 January. But the crisis for more than three months after the first hexagonal union does not mean adjusted. From the perspective of the conference, scheduled for spring 2016, Philippe Martinez will have to face several challenges. Not least.



Tactical Flexibility

The first will establish itself internally after three months of revelations about the lifestyle of Thierry Lepaon (apartment, office, benefits) that profoundly disrupted the militants. Philippe Martinez can boast of experience to the federation of metallurgy he has led since 2008. He can also claim the score he has achieved on Tuesday, although it reflects much of a desire to get out Finally, the crisis of a true plebiscite on his behalf. Finally, he showed by agreeing to draw a balanced national leadership between pro and anti Lepaon after a first failure in mid-January, his gruff character hides a more flexible tactical sense it seems.



Critical issues

But the questions raised acutely in the fall – is it any closer to the parties of the extreme left policies to weigh against the government? Is it closer to the reformist unions like the CFDT or otherwise away from it because it is too close to the executive – will soon resurface. In November, even as Thierry Lepaon had not resigned, Philippe Martinez outlined his vision in L’Express personnell. “The relationship to politics, we can discuss it, but it’s not about the first question, c is what kind of unionism we want to do? As for rallies against austerity, if to hide our weaknesses, gather several small to big, it’s a mistake. ”

Tomorrow, he will be followed in a union that these issues deeply divide? He will have to gather beyond his natural supporters. And avoid mistakes like the one committed by his partner in mid-January: Nathalie Gamiochipi, Secretary General of Health, the second largest federation of the CGT, voted to reverse the mandate given to it, giving the feeling of a dirty trick in favor of Philippe Martinez in an organization on the nerves.



Find credibility

But it is mostly outside the house confederal that the CGT will have to rebuild credibility. It’s been several months in discussions with the government or in negotiations with employers, his interlocutors have learned to do “without” the plant. Either she was not able to produce proposals, arguments, or that it was so immersed in the crisis that nobody knew what that represented the CGT. The most glaring example being trading on social dialogue ended without an agreement on January 22, where the negotiators of the CGT were not only completely opposite tendencies, but mostly members of a resigned office, so on borrowed time.

If it is the will of a constructive CGT that did not accept the no and in opposition to the government and employers, Philippe Martinez will have to prove it. With a team completely new and unaccustomed to the institutional discussions, as could be their predecessors Mohamed Oussedik (in charge of industry) or Eric Aubin (employment, pensions …). In its general secretary clothes Metallurgy, he has composed between claims and proposals. It must now adapt its method to another level.



Clear the failed succession Bernard Thibault

Renault man, the coming year will be especially of internal reconciliation and preparation future congress. This will erase the tracks left by the failed succession Bernard Thibault in 2013. At the time, Thierry Lepaon won exhaustion of his opponents, but was forced to keep them in the union leadership. Philippe Martinez will start with a new team, but there have also been in favor of a crisis. Paid for him to show that after 120 years of existence, many adventures, a fall of the Berlin Wall and that, sensational, Secretary General, the house still standing.

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