Union action
In 1996,Berger became a permanent staff member of the Saint-Nazaire CFDT local union. [7] He worked on employment and youth issues within the trade union. [7]
In 2003,he was elected general secretary of the CFDT regional union of Pays de la Loire [8] and joined the CFDT national office. [1]
On 17 June 2009 he was elected to the Confederal Executive Commission,the leading body of the CFDT, [9] where he was in charge of small business files. [1] After 2010,he was in charge of employment issues,securing career and integration paths. In this respect,he was the CFDT negotiator to state unemployment insurance and to youth employment. [1]
Berger was appointed as the deputy general secretary of CFDT on 21 March 2012. [10]
He was the head of a reflection on the functioning of the CFDT, [11] aimed at bringing the union closer to employees. [12]
After François Chérèque's resignation,Berger was elected as the general secretary by the CFDT national office on 28 November 2012. [13] He was re-elected with 98.31 percent of votes on 5 March 2014 during a CFDT congress in Marseille. [14]
In 2016,Berger supported the Socialist government's labour law reform bill,in contrast with the FO and CGT unions. [15]
In June 2018,Berger was re-elected as the general secretary of the CFDT with more than 90 percent of votes. Under Berger's chairmanship,the CFDT became the largest trade union at union elections in the private sector (2017) but remained the second one at the elections in the Civil Service (2018). On 11 December 2018 Berger tweeted that the CFDT had become the first trade union in France,overtaking the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). [16]
Berger has been the chairman of the European Trade Union Confederation since May 2019. [17]
