Toward a Trade Unionism of Organization

While most authors, with the exception of Bevort and Jobert (2011), make every effort to show the decline of French trade unionism, the study of trade-union activity shows the diversity and the amplitude of its interventions. Between the trade unionism of management of the labor market, trade unionism as social movement, and the trade unionism of representation established by the State, there emerges a trade unionism of proximity and daily confrontations. This trade-union work consists on the one hand in answering the demands of the employees who complain about decisions of their supervisor that they consider to be arbitrary; it consists on the other hand in denouncing irregular work by asserting the necessity of building effective and justifiable rules. Finally, this trade-union activity exercises a vigilance on the choices of organization.