French Confederation of Christian Workers

CFTC

French Confederation of Christian Workers
Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens
Founded	1919
Members	160,000
Affiliations	ITUC, ETUC
Website	www.cftc.fr

The French Confederation of Christian Workers (French: Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens, CFTC) is one of the five major French confederation of trade unions, belonging to the social Christian tradition.

It was founded in 1919 as the Trade Union of Employees of Industry and Commerce under the inspiration of the Venerable Brother Exupérien Mas, F.S.C., with the goal of safeguarding the material as well as the spiritual interests of its members. In 1964, the union split, a majority founding the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), a secular trade-union.

The CFTC is a member of the International Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Union Confederation. Its leader is Jacques Voisin.

Professional Elections

The CFTC won 8.69% of the vote in the employee's college during the 2008 professional elections. This result, however, is below the CFTC's 9.65% result in 2002, its best showing to date.

See also

• Politics of France
  • Trade unions:
    • Workers' Force
    • French Democratic Confederation of Labour
    • General Confederation of Labour
    • French Confederation of Management - General Confederation of Executives
    • Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques
• Mouvement des Entreprises de France

References

• ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |editor= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

External links

Media related to Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site of the CFTC