The General Confederation of Labour is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions.
The General Confederation of Labor - Workers' Force, is one of the five major union confederations in France. In terms of following, it is the third behind the CGT and the CFDT.
The French Democratic Confederation of Labour is a national trade union center, one of the five major French confederations of trade unions, led since 2023 by Marylise Léon. It is the largest French trade union confederation by number of members (875,000) but comes only second after the General Confederation of Labour in voting results for representative bodies.
The Solidaires or Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques (SUD) is a French group of trade unions.
The Bourse du Travail, a French form of the labour council, were working class organizations that encouraged mutual aid, education, and self-organization amongst their members in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
LIP is a French watch and clock company whose turmoil became emblematic of the conflicts between workers and capital in France.
Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe is a trade union centre in Guadeloupe. CGTG was founded in 1962, as the Guadeloupean federation of the French Confédération générale du travail became an independent centre. CGTG is particularly strong amongst banana plantation workers and in the Basse-Terre area.
The National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions is one of the French confederations of trade unions, but they do not have the présomption irréfragable de représentativité of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), Workers' Force (CGT-FO), French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC) and French Confederation of Management – General Confederation of Executives (CFE-CGC).
René Belin was a French trade unionist and politician. In the 1930s he became one of the leaders of the French General Confederation of Labour.
Marc Fiacre Henri Blondel was a French trade union leader.
François Chérèque was a French Trade unionist, and leader of the French trade union CFDT.
Benoît Frachon was a French metalworker and trade union leader who was one of the leaders of the French Communist Party and of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45). He was Secretary-General of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) from 1945 to 1967.
Jacques Julliard was a French historian, columnist and essayist, and a union leader. He was the author of numerous books.
Louis Viannet was a French trade union leader.
Pierre Gensous was a French trade unionist.
Philippe Martinez is a French trade unionist. He was the general secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) from 2015 to 2023.
The Federation of Health and Social Services is a trade union representing
The 2021 French labor protests were a series of protests and strikes organized by the General Confederation of Labour (France) (CGT), other trade unions, and French citizens dissatisfied with the country's economic and employment conditions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These were followed by protests against proposed laws that would give greater powers to police.
Sophie Binet is a French trade unionist who has served as general secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) since 2023.
