The arrival of Sophie Binet, 41, at the head of the CGT is obviously a double revolution.
For the first time, a woman has been secretary general of the General Confederation of Labor since its creation in 1895. And what is more, she held the same position at UGICT, the General Union of Engineers, Managers and Technicians, the structure created in 1963 to bring these trades together at the CGT.
Before becoming a full-time trade unionist, Sophie Binet was a senior guidance counselor at National Education.
This break with the workerist tradition only reflects the new sociology of work in France.
Managers now outnumber manual workers, representing 21.7% and 19% respectively of salaried employment.
While forty years ago, the country had three times more blue-collar workers than white-collar workers, the two curves crossed from 2019, reports INSEE in its 2022 labor market report.
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