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Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail The French Democratic Confederation of Labour (french: link=no, Confédération française démocratique du travail, CFDT) is a national trade union center, one of the five major French confederations of trade unions, led since 2012 by Laurent Be ...

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Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens The French Confederation of Christian Workers (french: italic=no, Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens; CFTC) is one of the five major French confederation of trade unions, belonging to the social Christian tradition. It wa ...

'' (CFTC) **''

Confédération générale du travail The General Confederation of Labour (french: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT) 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. It is ...

'' (CGT) **'' Confédération Française de l'Encadrement - Confédération Générale des Cadres'' (CFE-CGC) **'' Confédération générale du travail - Force Ouvrière'' (FO) *Other large unions: ** ''

Union nationale des syndicats autonomes The National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions (french: Union nationale des syndicats autonomes, UNSA) is one of the French confederations of trade unions, but they do not have the ''présomption irréfragable de représentativité'' of the Gene ...

'' (UNSA) ** '' Solidaire'' *Regional Unions: ** ''Confédération générale du travail - Martinique'' (CGTM) in

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label= Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...

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Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe ''Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe'' ('General Confederation of Labour of Guadeloupe') is a trade union centre in Guadeloupe. CGTG was founded in 1962, as the Guadeloupean federation of the French ''Confédération générale d ...

'' (CGTM) in

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label= Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands— Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and ...

** '' Corsican Workers' Trade Union'' (STC) in

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

** ''Syndicat des Travailleurs de Bretagne'' (STB) in

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...

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Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak (, Basque for "Nationalist Workers' Committees") is a Basque left-wing nationalist and separatist trade union operating mainly in Spain currently led by Garbiñe Aranburu. It was created in 1974 by Jon Idigoras among others. They are part of ...

'' (LAB) in Basque country ** ''

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*Small unions: ** '' Confédération nationale du travail-Vignole'' (CNT-F) ** '' Confédération nationale du travail-AIT'' (CNT-AIT) ** '' Confédération nationale du travail-Solidarité Ouvrière'' (CNT-SO) ** ''Confédération autonome du travail'' (CAT) *Sectorial Union: ** '' Fédération Syndicale Unitaire'' (FSU) ** ''Fédération générale autonome des fonctionnaires'' (FGAF) ** ''

Alliance Police nationale Alliance Police nationale is a French police union established May 9, 1995, in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis () is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the region. In French, it is often referred to colloquially ...

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Syndicat de la Magistrature The Syndicat de la Magistrature (SM; English: Magistrate's Union) is France's second largest magistrates' trade union in terms of membership after the more conservative Union syndicale des magistrats. Political positions Close to the left-wing p ...

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Union syndicale des magistrats The Union syndicale des magistrats, commonly abbreviated as USM, is the French largest (and majoritarian) magistrates trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of wor ...

'' (USM) ** '' Syndicat du travail sexuel'' (STRASS) ** ''Fédération autonome de la fonction publique territoriale'' (FA-FPT) ** ''Syndicat national des journalistes'' (SNJ) ** ''Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo'' (STJV) *Historic unions: ** '' Confédération Générale du Travail Unitaire'' (CGT-U) a scission from the CGT from 1921 to 1936 when it fused back in the CGT ** '' Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire'' (CGT-SR) an anarchist scission from the CGT-U present from 1926 to 1939, refounded in the CNT ** ''

Fédération nationale des Jaunes de France The Fédération nationale des Jaunes de France (English: ''National Federation of the Yellows of France'') was a French 'yellow' or company union founded by Pierre Biétry on 1 April 1902 and active until 1912. According to historian George L. M ...

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company union A company or "yellow" union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer, and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article ...

present from 1902 to 1912

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