Workers' Force
Force Ouvrière was founded in 1948 by former members of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) who denounced the dominance of the French Communist Party over that federation.In May 1947, the Communist ministers were excluded from the government led by Paul Ramadier, a Socialist, because they were incapable to quell the ultimately victorious strike in the biggest factory in France, the Renault car plant in Boulogne-Billancourt.Indeed, if Bergeron was an SFIO member for a short period, he was also a hardcore reformist who believed firmly in "social agreement" with the employers and the De Gaulle right-wing government.Fearing an integration of the unions into the state, they were the only confederation to call for a "No" vote in the 1969 referendum, which lead to the defeat and the final resignation of De Gaulle from power.In April 2018, Pascal Pavageau, which presents himself as being part of the historical and traditional Workers' Force trend (independence of trade unions towards the political parties) became the new secretary general.In his expose on The Saturday Evening Post, Braden wrote of the CGT strike: "Into this crisis stepped [Jay] Lovestone and his assistant, Irving Brown.
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