Jacques Julliard, whom readers of "Figaro" find every month, is a columnist for the weekly "Marianne" and was an active member of the CFDT.
On the dismantling sea of public opinion, against a background of generalized mistrust of any kind of authority, starting with that of the president and his prime minister, but also of all parties, including opposition parties, the CFDT suddenly appears as the only fixed point, and its secretary general, Laurent Berger, as the only man who inspires confidence on the left and on the right, among workers and managers alike. During the "deconfessionalization" of the plant (1964), a four-letter acronym was chosen, because the CGT had only three, and the CGT-FO, five. The agreement was quickly made on the T, as "work".
There is only Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who decidedly tells anything, to claim that the T should be read as "workers" and not as "work". As if work...
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