In this first episode of our series devoted to the CGT, Xavier Yvon and Béatrice Mathieu, a great reporter specializing in the Economy at L’Express, observe how close the former first union in France is to breaking up.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Margaux Lannuzel (writing), Charlotte Baris (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: Cnews, TF1, Europe 1, BFM, BFM Business, RTL, LCI, France Inter, Elysee, France 24
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Lou BENOIST/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: Before introducing you to the subject of this podcast, I suggest you go back in time a bit… No need for the teleporter, it won’t last long, it’s just to share a memory with you…
In the spring of 2021, almost 2 years ago, the La Loupe team was thinking about the outlines of the future daily podcast of L’Express. It didn’t have a name yet, no credits yet… But very quickly, we agreed on our promise: to take the time and rely on the expertise of the editorial journalists to give our listeners the keys to understanding the world of today and tomorrow.
What that means concretely is that we wanted those who sometimes listen to the radio in the morning or watch the news from a news channel to learn things by listening to us.
Since then, we’ve been building a new podcast every day, keeping that promise in mind. And today’s episode is a perfect illustration of that.
For a few weeks and for a few more months, you have heard and read a lot of these three words in the media: “pension reform”.
Well, rather than presenting the issues of this text to you, La Loupe has decided to take a step aside. You are listening to the first episode of a mini-series devoted to… the CGT. Not to talk about its position or its role in the negotiations around the pension reform… But to tell you how the internal wars and other reheated hatreds got the better of the power of the former first union in France… At the he dawn of a strong social standoff, the CGT is no more than a shadow of itself… And believe me, the story of its drift is worth the detour.
For further
PODCAST. Pensions: what avenues for reforming our system which is running out of steam?
Pension reform: France, sick of its unions
“They are trying to redo the icing”: behind the fuel crisis, a CGT adrift
CGT: behind the strikes in the refineries, what is really being played out behind the scenes