Death of Alain Lebaube, former journalist at “World”

Specialist recognized by social issues, mutations of employment and training, he had entered the Economy Service of the Evening Daily in 1979. He died on March 15, at the age of 77 years.

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All his life, he has been inhabited by his passion for “social”. In recent years, while he lived under respiratory assistance, after having accumulated a Kyrielle of operations and serious health problems and have been confronted with terrible dramas – with the death of his wife, Brigitte, in 2002, then From his daughter Céline, in 2018, both victims of cancer – he continued to take a lucid look at the mutations of employment and social relations. Former journalist in the world, Alain Lebaube died, Tuesday, March 15, at Cahors Hospital, at the age of 77. In 2017, he had left Paris to live in his home in Cenevières (Lot).

Born on May 31, 1944 in Charleval (Eure), Alain Lebaube gets his baccalaureate at Pierre-Corneille Lycée de Rouen in 1960. He then graduated from the School of Journalism of Lille in 1966, when he started his Career in Paris-Normandie. In 1972, he participated in a strike against the takeover of the group Hersant and played the clause of consciousness to leave in 1976. He launched, in 1977, in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), Seine. -Hebdo then joins the trade union press of the CFDT, where it will be deputy editor of Hebdo trade unionism.

Through his mandates, he will bear the colors of this union by maintaining total independence and a critical spirit. In 1979, he entered the world as a writing secretary and then, from February 1980 and until October 1994, at the social heading in the Economie Service where he is in charge of employment and training. Alain is a workaholic, a “Stakhanovist”, as his friend François Charpentier recalls, a journalist specializing in social protection. His wife, Brigitte, who came to pick him up every day, sometimes had to wait long hours.

Expertise

Firm on his convictions, always open to the discussions, sometimes endless but still stimulating, Alain imposes, by the seriousness of his expertise, as one of the best specialists in employment and training. We admire his art of juggling each month, from his cards where he noted all the numbers, with the “corrected data of seasonal variations” of the number of unemployed. It follows for hours, and often the night, the negotiations on unemployment insurance or the flexibility of employment, as in December 1984 on the return of a trip to Turin, traumatized by an aircraft where four of His confreres found death. Head of the Social Department, he launched in 1989 with the author of these lines, to which the binds a solid professional and friendly complicity, the weekly supplement “initiatives”. Editorialist In 1998, Alain is the designer of the monthly Le Monde initiatives, of which he is the director of the publication, an adventure begun in October 2001 and who will run short in April 2005.

Frigy friendly and warm, big smoker of gypsies, good living, amateur wine and whiskey, Alain is an prolix author. He writes including the job in crumbs (Hachette, 1988), social, here the exit! (Le Monde Editions, 1993) – of which Emond Mayor, former Secretary General of the CFDT, will say that it “gives off the meaning of the necessary mutation, the virtuous circle of an attitude of co-responsibility where everyone – undertaking and employee – would be Winner “- or the peasant republic, with his friend Jacques Grall (ed. Jacob Duvernet, 2002).

“I first started to interest me in the phenomenon of unemployment, told Alain. But behind that, there is the extraordinary mutation of the world of work and the companies themselves, due to the appearance New information technologies. They participate in the outbreak of work, content and organization. “Adding that,” in the face of this state of affairs, the unions must quickly find. The social dialogue must To adapt to the new rules of employment. “Paradise on earth, it’s over,” said today, we must rethink the work “.

With his sweet smile, his attention to others, Alain cultivated empathy. Benevolent grandfather of four grandchildren – one at his céline daughter and three in his son Antoine Ozanam, comic scriptwriter – he will sorely miss everyone who loved him.

/Media reports.