Work : New Job February 1989 (Elected union General Secretary) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Social : Great Publicity 24 November 1995 (Impassioned stand on railroad strike) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Death:Death, Cause unspecified 16 March 2014 in Paris (Age 75) chart Placidus Equal_H.
French union leader, elected General Secretary (Chairman) of F.O. (a right wing and anti-communist trade union) in February 1989. Originally a street hawker, he collected several little jobs before being integrated into the union. A socialist, he was a freemason and a rabble-rouser, an inexhaustible speaker who kept the government, labor and management at a boil. Ten years prior, he was known as more reasonable and conservative but during the strikes of the railroad employees on 24 November 1995, he took an impassioned stand. He died on 16 March 2014, Paris, France. Link to Wikipedia (French) Read less