ABSTRACT
The Confédération Générale des Cadres (CGC) was officially established at the time of the Liberation, in October 1944. To the extent that the CGC considers its goal to be, in part, that of providing technicians, foremen, and managerial and supervisory personnel with their own distinctive form of representation and organization it clearly cannot tolerate competition, whether from trade unions or rival independents like the Union des Cadres et Techniciens. It is therefore important, says the CGC, that employers appreciate the value of joint efforts to make use of these skills and the importance of establishing the organizational structures needed to make this possible. During the period of interest the CGC was shaken by a number of extremely serious internal conflicts. The aim was either to defend the traditional triad (pay hierarchy, retirement benefits, tax reduction), that is, to uphold the distinctive position of the group’s members, or else to promote employment and maintain purchasing power.
