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From there to claim victory there is a not yet difficult to cross1 growth of GDP in the United States next yearOur spots are based on stories and are worn by the VisualFor our part we are operational for a yearWhat is not displeasing to several stakeholdersThe report recommends instead that solutionl' one of his relatives when she learned her appointmentShould not draw hasty conclusions estimated the UMPBut the attractiveness of metals is not deniedSports rights TF1 will also limit its responses to two free channelsTen years already. Became General Secretary of the General Confederation of labour (CGT) in 1999, Bernard Thibault is assured to be renewed for a fourth term at the end of the 49th Congress of the Union, which opens today in Nantes. For a long time, he was presented as the modern leader to give a more reformist face to the CGT has disappointed proponents of this line, eager to see the Union move faster. The third term saw Bernard Thibault, bolstered by victory against the CPE of Dominique de Villepin, change gear. And the CGT evolve not only protest line, which was placed at the centre of the political and social game. The reform of the special pension plans (SNCF, RATP, EDF - GDF) constituted a time key, when Bernard Thibault allowed the output in order of the strikes of the fall of 2007. He then appeared as the privileged interlocutor of the Elysée (read the investigation page 11) and as a man of compromise, when the CFDT previously had this role. This has not prevented the two largest unions begin a tactical reconciliation, cemented by the obtaining of the reform of Union representativeness based on the electoral hearing. The CGT drew anticrise benefit to the tribunals of December 2008, reinforcing its leadership (34 of the votes), as its strategy of inter-trade union unity, shared by François Chérèque, resulted in massive mobilizations in early 2009, for social measures.
A colossus with feet of clay
Reverse of the Medal, the CGT, which the image is also improved with the French, now has an obligation of results to employees and activists. But the hour is more stimulus measures on the side of Government and achieve advances in business is more difficult. Officials are shattered by the reform of the State. And the Inter-Union gradually disintegrated, lack of grain to grind. The CGT, it remains of the admission of Bernard Thibault a colossus with feet of clay: conquest activist, in particular in SMEs and the private sector, is a "fail", at the risk of a growing with employees, even if offset combat is undocumented, a success; the Confederation is marked by a "bureaucratization deep(selonunrapportinterne) with federations, local unions and unions of basic jealous of their prerogatives. Internal tensions.
The choice of the Secretary-General to bring the number of members of the Confederal bureau 12-8 in shaping the crossing a branch in his hand shows that Bernard Thibault is decided to not sink in what could be his last term. The Congress will provide a forum to the opposition to be heard. It will highlight the "reform" of the Secretary-General that it considers too close to Nicolas Sarkozy, and point the divide between the Confederal direction and the base, which could appear in the social conflicts this year. But the opposition remains divided and minority, and more than frontal attacks - the symbolic contre-candidat Jean-Pierre Delannoy (metallurgy, Nord - Pas-de-Calais) or the CGT of Continental Clairoix, Xavier Mathieu delegate-, Bernard Thibault will have to overcome doubt and discomfort earning some activists on the direction and the future of the CGT. In its relations with the head of State: "I have been no cases guilty or responsible for any deal whatsoever", he says in "Le Figaro".
