Federation of General Unions of National Education

Trade union of France

The Federation of General Unions of National Education (French: Fédération des syndicats généraux de l'Éducation nationale, SGEN) is a trade union representing education workers in France.

The union was founded in October 1937, by Guy Raynaud de Lage, François Henry and Paul Vignaux. Despite being a secular union, it decided to join the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC), in preference to the secular but left-wing General Confederation of Labour (CGT). The union argued that the CFTC should also become a secular organisation, and this was achieved in 1964, when the majority of the federation became the French Democratic Confederation of Labour.[1][2]

By 1995, the union claimed 40,700 members,[3] but by 2017, this had fallen to 24,952.[4]

## General Secretaries

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1937: Guy Raynaud de Lage
1944: Marcel Reinhard
1946: Guy Raynaud de Lage
1948: Paul Vignaux
1970: Charles Pietri
1972: François Garrigue
1977: Roger Lépiney
1980: Patrice Béghain
1983: Michel Vergnolle
1986: Jean-Michel Boullier
1998: Jean-Luc Villeneuve
2007: Thierry Cadart
2012: Frédéric Sève
2016: Catherine Nave-Bekhti

## References

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1. ^ "RAYNAUD DE LAGE Guy". Le Maitron. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
2. ^ "VIGNAUX Paul, Dominique". Le Maitron. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
3. ^ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 267\. ISBN 0333771125.
4. ^ "La CFDT en bref". Institut Superieur du Travail. Archived from the original on 17 July 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.

## External links

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* Official website

Authority control databases

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* ISNI
* VIAF

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* United States
* France
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Other|

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