Laurent Berger
[2][3] After he earned a master's degree in history from University of Nantes,[4][5] he became a permanent staff member of the Young Christian Workers (YCW) in 1991.[3] Berger was employed by a social insertion association in Saint-Nazaire to help long-term unemployed adults and RMI beneficiaries to find jobs.[1] On 17 June 2009 he was elected to the Confederal Executive Commission, the leading body of the CFDT,[9] where he was in charge of small business files.[14] In 2016, Berger supported the Socialist government's labour law reform bill, in contrast with the FO and CGT unions."[18] In April 2017, during the 2017 French presidential election, Berger announced he had "clearly taken a stance against Marine Le Pen and published arguments for [CFDT's] militants", even if he did not give any voting instructions.