Gérard Labrune (born 2 September 1943 in

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Indre Indre (; oc, Endre) is a landlocked department in central France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are known as the ''Indriens'' (masculine; ) and ''Indriennes'' (feminine; ). Indre is part of the current administ ...

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syndicalist Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the left-wing of the labor movement that seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of pro ...

Biography

Labrune spent his entire professional career at

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and joined the syndicalist movement at the age of 50. In 1999, he became the national president of the SNB and president of the National Federation of Credit Institutions' Union (fédération nationale des syndicats des établissements de crédit, FNSEC), and president of the National Federation of Finance and Banking (fédération nationale de la finance et de la banque). He was elected secretary general of the CFE-CGC in December 2006. He is a member of the

French Economic, Social and Environmental Council The Economic, Social and Environmental Council (French: ''Conseil économique, social et environnemental''), known as the Economic and Social Council before the constitutional law of 23 July 2008, is a consultative assembly in France. It does ...

and is on the board of directors of AGIRC.ARGIC document

External links

CFE-CGC

References

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