Client culture still has progress to make

Entrepreneurs are rational people, shattering departure, last week, the agri-food industry (Ania) of the Medef is supposed to have obeyed rules of good management. The crisis would have required the Ania, stricter than in the past, so a review of expenses and services. In this respect, the services offered by the Medef in exchange for 600,000 euros per year paid were not judged sufficient. In his position of provider, Laurence Parisot, President of the Medef, did not appreciate the failure of his client, non-party without pay but without notice and without discussion.

Of course, political considerations have also weighed. The provisioning of the assessment to the Medef in the accounts of the Ania suggests to some that it is rather an arm of the railway between two organizations that will have each an election in 2010 and including Presidents, linked in 2005 upon the election of Laurence Parisot, disagree more. But if the Ania arrived here, it is also because the employers have failed to adapt their model to the rules of the companies they represent. It is the first argument developed by the Ania in its press release issued after its anti-Medef Sling: "this vote expresses above all a willingness to renovation of the representativeness of businesses in General and the management movement in particular, in the direction of a more effective and more transparent system.".In the agri-food, as in many industrial sectors to the older than the service history, professional unions are specialized to the extreme. Take your breakfast table: the Union of chocolate nearby with honey, coffee, grains "ready to eat", the "crisp and soft bread", etc. All adhere to Alliance 7, himself member of Ania, which contributes to the Medef...

One of the places to measure this profusion of labour bodies is the Office of the collective labour relations, where the services of the Directorate of labour trying to measure each day the representativeness of unions sometimes picrocholins. Field, companies are invited to join the Medef - or the CGPME - territorial, to the Chamber of commerce and industry, while organizations run after the federations to adhere and thus ensure their income (nearly two thirds of the budget for the Medef). Over time, and according to the good word of an observer advised the business world, the Medef has become a kind of "conconfédération" employer.

Therefore, it seems logical that a crisis makes the impossible equation for companies called to contribute still more. It is also coclass of voir, as the same day where the Ania approved her departure of Medef, the Union of canned, Adepale, itself formed of seven unions, leaving the Ania for insufficient services, or the same reasons for which the latter uttered the Medef! To save his skin of Federation, it sacrificed the top floor. A situation opposite of the undertaking, where the floor of the below users generally condemned. Some federations are in fact the financial brink. The Federation of mechanical industries (FIM), an umbrella structure of thirty "primary" unions (hardware, manufacturers of coils, pipes...), dismissed for dealing with the crisis. And the beauty business has severely reduced its forces.

Therefore, what to do Each camping on its missions and gives himself "President". But many are finding that the system arrived after his logic.

Some claim a fresh restructuring, such as the FIM, that merge several sectoral federations. Leaders argue for direct membership businesses to Medef. "Domestic organizations have more sense in the modern world." Bouygues for example, what the BTP or television The branch is an historic building but cutting by industrial products no longer works. "And it was thought at a time when the France was a closed economy" reasoning a pattern that would well see the Medef specialize in services, when the UIMM (metallurgy) the recovery industry. Others believe that employers cannot escape to the debate on the question of representativeness, as did act trade unions last year.

Who can lead this debate When the boss must know decide, the President of Confederation must primarily whether make consensus. "The federations, it is that there are more difficult to manage." "It's like the European debate: the abandonment of sovereignty are very difficult", says a business observer. Laurence Parisot announced proposals next month for rethinking the employers organisations. Candidate for re-election this summer, it cannot avoid it: the UIMM, after two years the gap due to case of transfers of funds in cash, has warned that it will address this issue in March. It then will have to be "inclusive and not disintegrant", advises against a pattern. A difficult exercise. In "Le Figaro", Laurence Parisot has not spared Jean-René Bush, President of the Ania and employer bargaining on all issues of social protection so far. Was "replacement, we will take our decision early January and this should not be very complicated," launched. Client culture still has progress to make.