L’expertise doit venir en complément de l’action syndicale, pas s’y substituer

• Main Authors: Fabien Gâche, Sabine Fortino, Guillaume Tiffon
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail 2013-10-01
• Series: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail
• Subjects: expertise; health and safety committee; unionism; CGT labour union; health at work; working conditions
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nrt/1320
• ISSN: 2263-8989

The article is drawn from Sabine Fortino and Guillaume Tiffon’s interview with Fabien Gâche, a central union delegate at CGT Renault and board member at the CGT metallurgy union. F. Gâche uses this narrative to say why elected health and safety committee officials rely on expertise, while describing the difficulties they face in obtaining this. He also looks at how his company’s senior management surrounds itself with experts to legitimise their work reorganisation projects and sometimes to get around the health and safety committee. Lastly, the article looks at the difficulties that elected officials face in appropriating these kinds of expertise and transforming them into union action. This article presents research action undertaken by CGT Renault and shows its usefulness for unionism.