Federation of General Unions of National Education

The Federation of General Unions of National Education (French: Fédération des syndicats généraux de l'Éducation nationale, SGEN) is a trade union representing education workers in France.

The union was founded in October 1937, by Guy Raynaud de Lage, François Henry and Paul Vignaux. Despite being a secular union, it decided to join the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC), in preference to the secular but left-wing General Confederation of Labour (CGT). The union argued that the CFTC should also become a secular organisation, and this was achieved in 1964, when the majority of the federation became the French Democratic Confederation of Labour.^[1][2]

By 1995, the union claimed 40,700 members,^[3] but by 2017, this had fallen to 24,952.^[4]

General Secretaries

1937: Guy Raynaud de Lage

1944: Marcel Reinhard

1946: Guy Raynaud de Lage

1948: Paul Vignaux

1970: Charles Pietri

1972: François Garrigue

1977: Roger Lépiney

1980: Patrice Béghain

1983: Michel Vergnolle

1986: Jean-Michel Boullier

1998: Jean-Luc Villeneuve

2007: Thierry Cadart

2012: Frédéric Sève

2016: Catherine Nave-Bekhti