Georges Seguy, leader of the CGT from 1967 to 1982 and negotiator of the Grenelle agreements in May 1968, died on Saturday aged 89 following a disease, sparking many tributes left and the labor movement.
“He died yesterday (Saturday) at the beginning of the afternoon,” said Sunday to AFP Elyane Bressol, president of the Institute of social history CGT, which Mr. Seguy was president of honor. Struggling for years against the disease, the former leader “was hospitalized for several days in Montargis Hospital, in Loiret,” she said.
His union cries “a leader that counted, which were long and still count, “said Philippe Martinez, current leader of the CGT, who testified on RTL his” deep sadness “. “He had this desire for a CGT offensive, combative, but also listening to the workers and who knows conduct strikes,” he said.
Another of his successors, Bernard Thibault, welcomed the “historic” contribution of Mr. Seguy the “radiation” of the CGT. Central wants a “national tribute be paid to him in September in Montreuil,” he told AFP Gisèle Vidallet, the CGT leadership.
Meanwhile, Pierre Laurent, leader of the PCF, which Georges Seguy was a member of the political office until 1982, “lost a friend.” “The Communists lost a comrade, a man filled with humanity, dignity, a fighter of the human race,” said he in a statement.
Francois Hollande paid tribute to “a man sincere and passionately devoted to social justice “which” all his life, embodied offensive unionism “,” ready to engage in struggles but also to negotiate good compromise. “
on Twitter, the Prime Minister Manuel Valls, he hailed “a great figure of unionism and social struggles in our country”, while Myriam El Khomri, Labour Minister expressed his “great emotion”.
as for Laurent Berger (CFDT), he honored the social network “a man of commitment, true to its values”
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Born 16 March 1927 in Toulouse in a working class family, Georges Seguy, print worker, committed to 16 years in the ranks of supporters shooters Francs (FTP) of the Resistance. Arrested by the Gestapo, he was deported in 1944 to Mauthausen (Austria), where he spent fifteen months.
On his return to France, his father brought to the train as an electrician .
He became in 1949 secretary of the federation CGT railway, which came in 1954 to the central Committee of the Communist Party and the politburo in 1956, Georges Seguy quickly climbed the ranks of the union apparatus: Secretary General the federation of railwaymen (1961), member of the confederal office of the CGT (1965), before succeeding in 1967, at the age of 40 years, Benoît Frachon at the head of the CGT.
it is he who leads the union for the Grenelle negotiations in May 1968 before becoming the principal opponent of the trade union field of the governments of the fifth Republic.
in 1982, Georges Seguy gives way Henri Krasucki and takes an active retirement. He created “The call of percent,” a peace movement close to the PCF, and organizes a symposium in 1995 for the centenary of the CGT.
Removed from the public scene, he broke his silence in December 2014 to urge his comrades to “preserve the cohesion of the CGT” in the storm caused by the revelations about the lifestyle of his distant successor Thierry Lepaon.
According Elyane Bressol (IHS), Georges Seguy ” has anticipated the changes that the CGT had to operate. ” “I think it is, to a large extent, the cause” by “his work on internal democracy, to give more room for discussion and result in more people in decisions, and unity union and the working class. “
” He stayed until recent weeks, a resistant who was interested in the social life of the country and who had an opinion, “a-t- she added
08/14/2016 5:04:51 p.m.. – Paris (AFP) – AFP © 2016
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