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Force ouvrière Congress opens Monday in Montpellier. Candidate to his own succession, Jean-Claude Mailly details issues of an appointment where FO will work to cultivate its difference.

I do not know. I exclude nothing.

The Confederal Office was largely renewed in the last Congress. There is this time above that one change, with the replacement of Bernard Devy by Philippe Pihet (UD du Rhône). There is a little more movement in the Executive Board.

We are tough on the defence of the pillars of the social Republic: public service, the maintenance of a collective welfare and prioritization of standards, with the primacy of the national in conventional or statutory matters. These three pillars are very attacked by the Government and employers. Emphasis will be also placed on the Organization of the work, public and not private addiction support and an extensive tax reform. It also put Nicolas Sarkozy with its responsibilities. I have not forgotten his very social speech in Geneva in 2009 to the ILO. He emphasized, and I quote, that "it is shrill and irresponsible to believe that peoples suffer nothing say the painful consequences of the crisis." And today, talking about Constitutionalize rigour! It does not have reason to Geneva if it is wrong to Paris or Brussels.

I hear this music Belleville and Montreuil (seats of the CFDT and the CGT, Editor's note). It is time it ceases. I am very serene, 2013, 2017 and after. FO is on an upward slope, all due respect to those who dream of a polarization of unionism.

There are ups and downs, as with all unions. I repeat, FO develops: for example just advance to ADP, the RATP and Airbus. And let us not hypocritical: we are fighting the reform of representativeness, but we enjoy because of including of autonomous trade unions are turning to large confederations. FO retrieved 24,000 ex-Unsa Police, 3,500 hostesses and stewarts of the SNPNC, 8,000 to 9,000 teachers of the SNETAA... Other arrivals will be announced at the Congress.

Our membership system makes it impossible to advance a total specific. I think that TF has approximately 500,000 members. The figures back not quite well and soon the field, it is true. This site will address after the Congress. Another trend: our members of the private sector are more and more. They represent 60 of the troops. To continue to develop in the private sector, we must better articulate the relationship between national, federal, and local structures. This will be one of the major themes of work of the Congress.

Our complaint to the ILO should be examined in March. It will be seen. And, in all cases of figure, FO will not said its last word. Our tenacity irritates some. This is a sign that they are not confident that they say.

Our line is clear, was validated internally and remains historically: FO is conducive to the unity of action, but refuses to put the cart before the horse. It is the common claims who must bring the action unit. But it is not question of leave us him locked up in an institutionalised Inter-Union which leads to the sterile search for the lowest common denominator for a unit of facade. FO keeps his freedom and will always refuse to play into the hands of a permanent structure which would become a sort of unique Union!

Polarization or the single Union are fantasies. The Union table is like any other: it takes at least three feet to hold. I find instead that FO is more compelling to find equilibrium points. The unions who criticize are also quick to resume our analyses and proposals. It is fun to see to wake up today on the ravages of the RGPP. Or other resume our idea of an allocation of intergenerational solidarity on the employment of young people.