Support of Emmanuel Macron, and the first woman to head a major trade union organization in France, Nicole Notat “itself will be surrounded by experts,” said Olivier Véran.

at the end of the last Council of ministers at the date, Wednesday, Olivier Veran has said they want to arrive “no later than mid-July” on the “Ségur Health” (the name of the avenue where is located the ministry), project of the government that must put an end to the “impoverishment” of health care providers.

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In this framework, the negotiations with the unions will begin as soon as Monday, may 25, under the leadership of the former head of the CFDT, Nicole Notat, 72 years of age. A choice surprise greeted with reserve by the unions, who think it is too close to the government.

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“Surrounded by experts,”

“This choice is not good because it is open to controversy,” said to AFP a leader of federation. “Notat designated to drive the Ségur, it’s not going to do it at all”, warned one of its counterparts. Nicole Notat “itself will be surrounded by experts”, has promised his side the minister Olivier Véran, by ensuring that the consultation would be “shoving corporatism” and to”provide concrete answers to the needs of caregivers.

reserves, among others, related to his support to Emmanuel Macron in 2017. The first woman to head a major trade union organization in France, the CFDT, between 1992 and 2002, she promised in a press release carry on this mission, “having at heart to organize mutual listening and dialogue between all stakeholders and to assist in the construction of conclusions, the most shared possible”. During this period, it will refrain “from any expression”. Discretion deep in the body since it has let go of the reins of the French democratic Confederation of labour, in 2002.

Support for the plan Juppé in 1995

Born on 26 July 1947 in Châtrices, in the Marne, this Lorraine comes from a family of farmers began to work as a special education teacher in childhood inadequate to Bar-Le-Duc (Meuse), and then in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), before throwing in the bath union. In 1982, elected to the executive committee of the CFDT, this is the only woman in this instance a leader, but also the youngest (35 years old).

Ten years later, she takes the head of the federal government in controversial circumstances a few months after the forced resignation of Jean Kaspar, the previous number one (1988-1992). Some activists speak of a “putsch”.

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Energetic, precise, courteous and an advocate of a unionism “partner” to the German – “willing to support”, will say its detractors, not hesitating to qualify it as “tsarina” -, Nicole Notat is not unanimous the first years of his mandate, as they are deemed insufficiently offensive.

At a conference heated up in 1995, a majority of attendees (52%) feel that the national office that it operates “has not fulfilled the mandate that were waiting for the unions” during the previous three years. A disallowance of as much as a protest vote is a first for the CFDT.

A woman in a man’s world: Nicole Notat, here on July 5, 1994 at Matignon, is in the two years since the first woman in France to have taken the head of a big trade union, the CFDT

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The secretary-general, however, maintains his course, approving a few months later the plan Juppé reform is very controversial on social protection in 1995, which then triggers a social mobilization never before seen since may ‘ 68. This support has crystallized the criticism in-house. Activists to join or create unions in the SOUTH.

The dirty parties, Nicole Notat resumes in hand its center, alternately admonishing and proposals vis-à-vis the teams of the government. In the framework of the “Rebirth of society” (2000), launched by the Medef, the CFDT, becomes the preferred partner of the employers ‘ organisation, the signing of all the agreements, to the chagrin of the CGT or FO.

“She has the courage of his convictions”

“to Discuss with the employers, this is not in any case clear,” says Nicole Notat in may 2002, when its last congress. Louis Viannet, its counterpart of the CGT, said of it : “This is a woman who really does not have the same ideas as me of unionism, but of which I am obliged to acknowledge that she has the courage of his convictions”.

François Chérèque succeeded him in 2002, but has not sought to renew his mandate. The former leader, who will recognize that they have suffered from sexism, founded by the following Vigeo, a leading international rating of social and environmental CSR (become Video Eiris), such as audits on discrimination in business and acquired last year by Moody s.

in Parallel to his functions within this agency, which claimed that, in 2019, 250 experts and ten locations in the world, Nicole Notat, has remained very active. Little attracted by the policy, but close to “the ideas of the left progressives”, it was often in contemplation of ministerial positions in different governments.

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Appelant at a “yes” vote to the european Constitution in 2005, she participated in 2007, under the quinquennium Sarkozy, the evaluation committee of the Grenelle environment forum, and under that of Holland, in 2013, includes a group of reflection launched by the government to promote the company in France.

From 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2013, she presided over the dinner of the Century, which brings together personalities from all walks of life (politics, economy, press, social, etc.). Again, this is a first for a woman in this association are closed to women until the 1980s. In July 2016, he receives the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of honor.

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Under the five-year programme Macron, it has already been called to another mission : corédiger a report to Bercy on the role of the company. In 2018, the executive, the appointed government delegate to the international labour Organization (ILO) to represent France, but is a backward step, because of “interference potential” with his professional activity.