FD Press Utilities
and UD 57
In recent weeks, the secretary general of the CGT union territorial agents of the town hall Nilvange (Moselle) has made public its recent accession to the National Front and its application under this label to the next district elections . In an interview published on a website in which he avails himself of his membership of the CGT, he defended the theses of the FN on national preference, immigration as a cause of unemployment, and against the legalization of undocumented migrants.For our organizations, this situation is unacceptable for two reasons: firstly, because a militant CGT is the propagandist and theses against the fundamental values and direction of our organization, and secondly, because his approach is an attempt to use the CGT to political purposes.
meeting on 15 February at the initiative of the UD CGT 57 and the Departmental Coordinating Association of Public Service, 26 members of the union of Nilvange have the majority refused to disavow their secretary general.
Accordingly, and in consultation with the UD CGT 57, the Executive Committee of the Federation CGT Utilities, held February 16, decided on the basis of confederal and federal statutes, the immediate suspension of membership of the union Nilvange to the Federation. This decision entails, upon notification to the union and the employer, the immediate cessation of any activity CGT in the community. The FEC refers to the Federal National Committee to be held in April, the task of pronouncing on the state of the union and the sanctions to be definitive. These may be up the dissolution in the event that a union may by then be reconstructed on the basis consistent with the values and orientations of the CGT union members who disagree with the current drift.
This is an opportunity for our organizations to call their members to greater vigilance, aggressiveness and information for employees facing a political organization advocating the rejection of foreigners as an outlet for social distress and developing economic and social arguments against the interests of wage earners. Our organizations will be particularly attentive to any new attempt to use the CGT by a political party that has always attacked democratic trade unionism, as was most recently illustrated his positions during the movement against the pensions reform. On February 21, 2011
