French Democratic Confederation of Labour

The French Democratic Confederation du Travail ( CFDT ) ( French Democratic Confederation of Trade Unions ), with about 800,000 members of the largest trade union federation in France.

Founded as the CFDT in 1964, when the members of the Christian Trade Union Confederation Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens ( CFTC ) majority chose a secularization and the renaming of the CFDT. About one tenth of its members, however, left in the wake of the Association and founded the CFTC new again.

In its early years, the CFDT politically especially the Parti Socialiste unifié (PSU ) of the Parti Socialiste (PS ) was close, then from 1974 under François Mitterrand. Meanwhile, the CFDT, however, is largely politically independent and supported, for example, in 1995 the conservative prime minister Alain Juppé in the enforcement violently controversial welfare reforms.

Acting Secretary General François Chérèque.