Syndicalisme Face ŕ L'organisation: Un Paradoxe?

The trade unionism and the organization in the sense of all the decisions and the choices which structure the work maintain a critical and sometimes distant relationship. On one side, the trade unionism seems always late with regard to the organization. On the other hand, the employer holds the monopoly of choices and ways assigned to implement them, with the exception of the zones of dialogues planned with the labor union in the various committees, but we can summarize the labor-union intervention in his participation.

By leaving of cases pulled by our studies in the territorial public service, we clarify on one hand, one news forms of the trade unionism which we call "trade unionism of organization "; it is situated between the trade unionism of opposition and the trade unionism associated with the power and it differs from the trade unionism of control (Tourraine, on 1962). Supported by groups of exchanges and confrontations with union activists, we clarify on the other hand, in which and under which conditions the work of the union activist allows to act on the organizational causes of the organizational skids, of the degradation of the professional situations and the deterioration of the health.

The union activists are not against rules, but for working rules on the condition of participating in their training and negotiating them: on one hand, they react to the individual requests of the agents to analyze it as a faintness of the organization and on the other hand, act on the organizational deviations by trying to stand out as a normative power.The trade unionism tries to build controversies on choices and decisions taken by the managers and be recognized as competent to discuss these choices.