Non-union candidates slip

The latest figures from the works council elections in France, confirm that non-union candidates have less support than in the past.

During the 1990s lists of non-union candidates regularly got more than 25% of the votes in elections to company works councils. This put them ahead of the lists put forward by the two largest union confederations, the CGT and CFDT.

The latest figures for 2002 show non-union lists getting only 21.7% of the vote. The CGT got 24.3% and the CFDT 22.1%.