Union syndicale Solidaires
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (March 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
The Solidaires or Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques (SUD) is a French group of
Political position
They tend to favor
The Group of 10 and the SUD Unions are part of the European Social Forum and the World Social Forum.
Most of the SUD trade-union practice a syndicalism of struggle (syndicalisme de lutte), like factions of the
Many members of SUD are also members of the New Anticapitalist Party, but there are also communist, socialist, ecologist, and anarchist sympathizers within the union.
History
The Group of 10 was created in 1981 by autonomous unions, such as the SNUI, or the SNJ, organizing journalists.
Most of these were unions who had refused to choose a side in the 1946 split between the reformist Workers' Force and the communist CGT.
But several of those unions decided to join UNSA - an alliance of moderate Unions - in 1993, soon after Sud-PTT joined the Group of 10.
The first SUD union was created in 1988 after a split within the
The CFDT expelled several unions from the health and the post and telecommunications federations located in the Paris region because they supported wildcat strikes self-organized by the workers. The expelled post and telecommunication unions decided to create a new federation, Sud-PTT, which got encouraging electoral results a few months later.
SUD defends
The successes of SUD in
SUD unions are now important in the health care sector, education, transportation (including the SNCF and Air France), cultural institutions such as the Louvre, as well as in some companies such as Michelin, Thales, or even students with Solidaires étudiant-e-s, syndicat de luttes.
Professional Elections
Solidaires won 3.82% of the vote in the employee's college during the 2008 professional elections, its best result to date. It had won 1.51% in 2002.
See also
- Politics of France
- Trade unions:
- Workers' Force
- French Confederation of Christian Workers
- French Democratic Confederation of Labour
- General Confederation of Labour
- French Confederation of Management - General Confederation of Executives
- Trade unions:
- Mouvement des Entreprises de France