Sud-PTT is a French trade union created in fall 1988 after the exclusion of more radical elements from the CFDT - PTT . CFDT is a union generally considered as the most open for negotiation and reforms. It is sometimes criticized for this approach, sometimes by its own members. In 1988, when French socialist minister Paul Quiles decided to undertake a deep reform of the Post and Telecommunication Administration, the CFDT decided to support him and to exclude those who would not follow its political line. Other reason for this exclusion: several CFDT unions from the Health and the Post and Telecommunications federations located in the Paris region supported wildcat strikes self-organised by the workers.
7-468: The expelled post and telecommunication unions decided to create a new federation, Solidaires, Unitaires et Democratiques (SUD, which also means the south in French). SUD's success with the workers comes from its rank-and-file sensibility, and its commitment to sharing and renewing the leadership ( cf. SUD internal rules ). SUD defends Social Movement Unionism by working with several movements: illegal immigrants,
14-673: Is a French group of trade unions . They tend to favor progressive or even radical views and work with the alter-globalization or anti-globalization movement. The Group of 10 and the SUD Unions are part of the European Social Forum and the World Social Forum . Most of the SUD trade-union practice a syndicalism of struggle ( syndicalisme de lutte ), like factions of the CGT , FO and
21-562: The CNT . That places it in opposition to the reformist or negotiation unions: the CFDT , Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens (CFTC), CFE-CGC and Union nationale des syndicats autonomes (UNSA). Many members of SUD are also members of the New Anticapitalist Party , but there are also communist, socialist, ecologist, and anarchist sympathizers within the union. The Group of 10
28-659: The "sans-papiers", unemployed people, etc. The successes of SUD in La Poste and France Télécom convinced other unions from the left wing of the CFDT to create similar unions in their professional sectors and several new SUD unions were formed following the mass public sector strikes of November and December 1995 and May and June 2003. SUD-PTT and the other SUD Unions are member of the former Groupe des 10 . Solidaires Unitaires D%C3%A9mocratiques The Union syndicale Solidaires , Solidaires or Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques (SUD)
35-628: The left wing of the CFDT to create similar unions in their professional sectors and several new SUD unions were formed following the mass public sector strikes of November and December 1995 and May and June 2003. SUD unions are now important in the health care sector, education, transportation (including the SNCF and Air France ), cultural institutions such as the Louvre , as well as in some companies such as Michelin , Thales , or even students with Solidaires étudiant-e-s, syndicat de luttes. Solidaires won 3.82% of
42-588: Was created in 1981 by autonomous unions, such as the SNUI, or the SNJ, organizing journalists. Most of these were unions who had refused to choose a side in the 1946 split between the reformist Workers' Force and the communist CGT . But several of those unions decided to join UNSA - an alliance of moderate Unions - in 1993, soon after Sud-PTT joined the Group of 10. The first SUD union
49-715: Was created in 1988 after a split within the CFDT . The CFDT expelled several unions from the health and the post and telecommunications federations located in the Paris region because they supported wildcat strikes self-organized by the workers. The expelled post and telecommunication unions decided to create a new federation, Sud-PTT , which got encouraging electoral results a few months later. SUD defends social movement unionism by working with several movements: illegal immigrants, unemployed people and so forth. The successes of SUD in La Poste and France Télécom convinced other unions from
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