2023-09-12 18:52:09
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The former boss of the CFDT will be responsible for “building a think tank focused on the protection of ecosystems and the fight against global warming”.
He says he is “enthusiastic like a kid”. The former secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, explains Tuesday September 12 in the world his choice to join a large French banking group, Crédit Mutuel, where he will “build a think tank focused on the protection of ecosystems and the fight against global warming”. “I am focused on my new mission at Crédit Mutuel, enthusiastic as a kid,” he explains in the daily, confiding that he has received “around fifteen serious job offers” since he left the CFDT.
He will lead the future center of expertise dedicated to “the climate and environmental revolution”, the mutual banking group immediately announced as part of a project to develop its governance.
This “Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale Institute” will be directly attached to general management and entrusted to Laurent Berger “who joins the group on September 15 and will have to lead the mission of prefiguring this institute, so that it will be operational in spring 2024”, said Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale in a press release. “The production of this center of expertise will be used by the operational teams, while respecting their responsibilities,” added the group.
Laurent Berger is close to Nicolas Théry, president of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale and himself a former member of the CFDT where he held the position of confederal secretary in charge of economic issues for two years between 2000 and 2002.
A former union leader hired by a bank? No problem, explains Laurent Berger in Le Monde, because Crédit Mutuel “is a mutual bank, part of the social and solidarity economy sector, which is developing a real strategy to contribute to a socially just ecological transition”.
A former union leader doing “greenwashing” for big capital? “The facts show the opposite,” insists the person concerned, for whom his new employer “has distinguished itself by concrete commitments, with – among other things – the societal dividend, a system by which 15% of its net profit is devoted to financing environmental and solidarity projects.
Laurent Berger, 54, was the number 1 of the reformist union since 2012, re-elected in 2022 before leaving office last June. He was one of the main actors in the mobilization against pension reform throughout the winter and spring of 2023.
Updated at 10:30 a.m. with the Crédit Mutuel press release.
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