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18 April, 2000The French mine and metal workers set future priorities and elect a new general secretary.
FRANCE: The FGMM-CFDT (the General Federation of Mine and Metal Workers) held its Fifth Congress in Toulouse on April 11-14, 2000.
An overwhelming majority of the 500 delegates representing 170 member unions of the Federation adopted new statutes for the organisation as well as a motion on updating pensions. There were lively discussions on working time and free trade, and important priorities the FGMM has set for its future goals and demands concern jobs, better working conditions, pay, job qualifications and upgrading pensions.
Half of the 80 guests who attended the Congress came from abroad, among them the IMF's general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, who brought to the Congress of the IMF's French affiliate the greetings and best wishes of 22 million metalworkers worldwide.
Voted in as the new FGMM-CFDT general secretary is Marcel Grignard, and of the 36 members elected to the Federation's Executive Board, eight are women.
One of the goals set by the previous Congress of the FGMM four years ago was organising the unorganised, and since then 15,000 new members have been added to the rosters of the organisation, or an increase in membership of 9.43 per cent.
An overwhelming majority of the 500 delegates representing 170 member unions of the Federation adopted new statutes for the organisation as well as a motion on updating pensions. There were lively discussions on working time and free trade, and important priorities the FGMM has set for its future goals and demands concern jobs, better working conditions, pay, job qualifications and upgrading pensions.
Half of the 80 guests who attended the Congress came from abroad, among them the IMF's general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, who brought to the Congress of the IMF's French affiliate the greetings and best wishes of 22 million metalworkers worldwide.
Voted in as the new FGMM-CFDT general secretary is Marcel Grignard, and of the 36 members elected to the Federation's Executive Board, eight are women.
One of the goals set by the previous Congress of the FGMM four years ago was organising the unorganised, and since then 15,000 new members have been added to the rosters of the organisation, or an increase in membership of 9.43 per cent.