Iron arm is completed by a Pyrrhic victory the President

SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS

BEHIND THE SCENES

THE MEDEF/UIMM SCANDAL

by Guillaume Delacroix

ditions Plon, 358 pages, 21.90 euros.

"Survey of employers: behind the scenes of the Medef/UIMM scandal" is a financial and sociological thriller remarkably documented and breathless, across the Atlantic, would no doubt find its writers and would give rise to a blockbuster.

The plot begins with the revelation, published in "Le Figaro", withdrawals by small cuts made regularly by Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac DGS , President of the Union of industries and professions of metallurgy, on account of his organization. Estimated at EUR 5.6 million and 19 million, these withdrawals attest the existence of a black of 600 million euros, abondée Fund since 1972.

Employer pressure groups have used and abused, from their first breath, "lyricism and INTA" arguments for their purposes in their relationships with decision makers, it's public knowledge. Guillaume Delacroix presents the complete inventory of these practices and their modalities since the heroic days of the Committee of the forges to the more prosaic period of rue de Penthièvre. The author lists the many scandals that have news where metallurgy was already a prominent role.

But in the 1990s, the Governments of left and right have made vote several laws of morality of public life, to put an end to these practices of another age. It includes, therefore, the fury of Laurence Parisot, the new President of the Medef, came to enhance the image of companies and employers in the public opinion, and confronted outset to this little ragoûtante history of suitcases!

Violent fist

Guillaume Delacroix narrates the menu with a luxury teeming details and countless testimonies violent fist who has opposed a full year the barons of the UIMM and team Parisot. And "You give the impression of being at the wheel of a bus with four grams of alcohol in blood and a cliff at three hundred meters," said Raymond Soubie, social counsellor to the President of the Republic, the President of the Medef to convince moderate his controversial. Iron arm is completed by a Pyrrhic victory the President. The leaders of the UIMM implicated are parties (not to mention, however, their golden parachute...), reports of force between the metal and the other major federations, including those of services, have been rebalanced. The Ethics Committee of the Medef, dormant since 2005, has been reactivated. Committee mandates, which means 29,000 labour representatives in the joint bodies, ceased to be the preserve of the UIMM.

"Employers survey" is searched portraits of the main protagonists Ernest - Antoine Seilliere, Denis Kessler, Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac, Laurence Parisot, Frederic Saint-Geours, Dominique de Calan and very suggestive sketches of many other characters.

It traces the role of the employer movement, in its different components, such as actor of social life and politics, France and in Europe. Several conceptions of what should be a modern management in the era of globalization compete unless the issue is decided. The book ends on the opening of the succession of Laurence Parisot at the head of the Medef in 2010. Back Denis Kessler Second mandate for Laurence Parisot Challenge of Xavier Fontanet, CEO of Essilor Patrick Bernasconi, President of the National Federation of public works The author keeps good answer, but that the investigation can reduce the chances of each.