The EDF Union Scandal: Unveiling the Mismanagement of the CGT

2023-11-25 13:57:37

Par Richard Flurin

Published 3 hours ago, Updated 30 minutes ago

It will be necessary to wait for the appointment of a new general director at the CCAS, in 2001, for all light to be shed on the way in which the CGT administers the “EDF hoard” Emma Segall/ Le Figaro

INVESTIGATION – After 77 years of uninterrupted reign, the Montreuil power station lost its place as the leading electrician’s union. The last thirty years have helped to shed light on his disastrous management of the “richest works council in France”.

The head of the CFE-CGC – executives’ union – at EDF was not mistaken. The historic victory of his organization, a few days ago, in the professional elections of the Electrician, which dethrones the CGT after 77 years of uninterrupted reign, is the fruit of a “work done for years”, insisted Amélie Henri, former quality, safety and environment manager within the company. Was she thinking, when saying these words, of the involvement of unions opposed to the CGT in the revelations of a scandal, which broke out in the early 2000s and which lastingly damaged the image of the CGT representatives of EDF? Without a doubt.

At the time, Amélie Henri had not even graduated from university yet – she did not join EDF until 2009. The public electricity service, nationalized at the initiative of the French Communist Party (PCF) just after the Second World War, must be liberalized in accordance with European directives. The public establishment…

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