In the elbow with the FSU at the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, the union loses its majority in seats in the municipality.
by Gilles Rof (Marseille, correspondent)
This is not the revolution that all of his opponents dreamed, nor even the end of a cycle. But the results of the professional elections of the territorial public service, which fell in the evening of Thursday, December 8, confirm the drop in influence of the Force Ouvrière union within the city of Marseille and especially in the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis ( Amp), two of its historical bastions.
While the campaign was marked by several cases involving current or past executives of the union, FO nevertheless manages to keep its position as a first territorial union. At the metropolis, where he is the heckled, he keeps this place only with a breath. Thirty votes separated him, at the time of the last counts Thursday around midnight, from the FSU, its main rival, out of a total of nearly 4,000 voters. With this result, the two organizations each obtain five seats in the territorial social committee (CST). With 19.42 %, the UNSA, which increased compared to 2018, takes three seats, while the CGT (11.16 %), stable, harvested only one.
To the city of Marseille, where the ballot took place for the first time by electronic vote for eight days, FO sees its result fall by almost 2 % but retains a fairly wide margin on its pursuers. He leads with 41.72 % of the votes to the territorial social committee. The CGT takes second place at the CFTC-CF-CGC alliance (18.13 % against 17.52 %) which has been held since 2018.
fi “is doing rather well”
But the decline of worker in votes has important consequences since it deprives the union of its absolute majority within the CST. Out of fifteen seats, FO now only has seven, against eight before. It is therefore potentially possible for the municipality to make decisions validated without the agreement of a union which, until then, knew how to assert its essential position. “Given the pans we dragged during the campaign, the coalition of other unions against us and what we were promised after the election of a new municipal team, we are doing pretty well,” relativizes Patrick Rué , the Secretary General Force Ouvrière-Territorial.
For the historic boss of FO in Marseille, the decline in his organization is due to “two causes”: “a bad score among category A civil servants and the electronic vote which has embarrassed a lot of field agents and favored frameworks “. Mr. Rué wants to proof the difference in the participation rates of the two categories: 71.8 % among A against 48.30 % in categories c.
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