Its leaders were apparently able to reassure investorsBarack Obama leads all right to socialismThe slightest electoral law is still debateAnd the American Dell could follow them suitIt must also have strong qualities of ManagerBeing a former represents an enormous responsibilityIt appears that the largest bidders in this operation are collectors for a long time It does not sell by vocation but by dutyAnd the principal residenceIt is the same and ethical fair trade car with hybrid engineSixty-five years, is it time for the "Union of managers" to retirement Created in 1944 executives and des cadres supérieurs et des pour défendre la plus des des pour défendre la plus pour défendre la plus to defend the most escape to the debate on its future. Protected until then by its status as representative Confederation, it is now at the foot of the wall: from 2013, it will have to, like the others, winning in the polls its representativeness, therefore the right to sit at the negotiating tables. Thus to have decided the CFDT, CGT and employers by early 2008 the "common position" on the modernisation of the social dialogue. A Union Yalta stab-like: in the State, the scores of the GSC in the labour election him not at all guarantee to remain representative at the interprofessional level.
Respond to, but how Its President, Bernard Van Craeynest, is confident: survival through a merger with the Unsa, project in which he plunged heart and soul. His resoluteness is laudable, but too wanting to enter force, head down, it is not known, or wanted, to hear mounting resentment. The return of stick is that more violent. Tuesday, the major federations from Central have again served their refusal to follow too hastily in this way. In fact, merge with the Unsa would imply a heavy Act for the GSC: renounce its specific positioning to become General. A too forget that it scans not six decades of history of a back of hand, Bernard Van Craeynest took the risk of transforming a crisis of identity in internal crisis. But it may also be virtuous to the plant. Forced to return to the record of zero in the dépassionnant, it may, if she manages to find the calm after the storm, finally to begin a true reflection on the interest or not to hang on to his label of "Union of managers". The issue is pressing both the identity of the GSC crisis returns to that experienced by the managers themselves.
They were 1.5 million thirty years ago, today they are 3.2 million (according to the Agirc, their complementary pension fund). Undercover, their status lost its prestige, to the point that the very concept of framework becomes obsolete both it now brings together different professional situations. And after the disenchantment of the 1980s and 1990s with massive layoffs, reorganizations of the years 2000 them were disoriented.
They also hit by difficulties with purchasing power and by the fear of unemployment, invited to do more to focus on a hierarchical position, status or role, lost in less pyramidal organizations, managers make every day a little more bitter observation: they leave less and less of the lot of other employees.
Already, in the 1960s, the GSC cried wolf of the frameworks "proletarianization". Today, it is for her to see: the Wolf came and place a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, frameworks, more protest, more than ever need of trade unions have to listen to them and defend them. But on the other, the GSC was more difficult to base its legitimacy on their features.
For Trade Union officials, the question is to reinvent itself to adapt to developments in the world of work. GSC, to do this, to rely on its base, which has long stopped thinking in terms of status. It is a fact: today, almost a member on two (48) of the "executive power"... is not framework. There are master agents, technicians or various employees whose missions, working conditions, values and expectations are largely comparable to those of managers, with which they form, at the national level, much of the middle classes. These populations are the modern representatives of identity framework less marked than before, but not disappeared so far. It has mutated.
In one form or another, merged or not, category or general practitioner, it is the defence of the interests of its employees, lost between the top and the bottom of the scale, the GSC shall save. Balance to expand enough to survive and relatively little to not lose his soul will be difficult to find. But she has no choice but to try to meet this challenge. Otherwise, it won't in this population, more and more bloated, two options: to turn even more than today ' hui to other trade unions, to the risk that the defence of their interests be drowned in one of the more general interest. or waive unionism, or find more himself in his struggles.
