If the CFTC is the smallest of the five representative unions, it can boast of having always been able to sit down, since its creation in 1919, in front of the employers at the negotiating table.
But the boom years after WWII, when the Christian union numbered one million members, are over.
Today, the French Confederation of Christian Workers claims 140,000 members (it probably has no more than 100,000) and obtained 10.9% of the votes in the last representativeness score in 2017.
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A score certainly higher than the minimum threshold of 8% set by the 2008 law, but far from the heavyweights of the chessboard like the CGT (28.6%) or the CFDT (30.3%), its younger sister who has gained independence in 1964 and in 2018 became the leading trade union in France.
An insufficient score which especially revives the debate on the plethora of unions in France, when our neighbors have only two or three and with much higher membership levels.
In 2016, only
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