who is Cyril Chabanier, the other reforming trade unionist who spoke for the intersyndicale on leaving Matignon?

With Laurent Berger of the CFDT, Cyril Chabanier is the other reformer of the inter-union. At the head of the CFTC (confederation of Christian workers), the 5th representative union, the 50-year-old man came very close to a career as a tennis referee.

Among the eight unions received at Matignon on Wednesday April 5, it is customary to evoke Laurent Berger (CFDT) as the reformer of the band. But in front of the microphones and cameras at the exit of Matignon this Wednesday, it is the other reformer who presented himself to read the report of the inter-union: the president of the CFTC, (Confederation of Christian Workers). Cyril Chabanier is at the head of the 5th representative union today with 140,000 members according to the official figure. In front of the seven other union bosses who had just left the discussions with Elisabeth Borne, he declared:“It is necessarily a failure. It served to make us repeat our various proposals, that this reform is not fair, but unfortunately the Prime Minister said that for her it was necessary, and therefore the meeting s ended like this”.

Cyril Chabanier then left for his next appointment for the CFTC: the signing of a social charter for the staff of the next Olympic Games and the Rugby World Cup. The man celebrated his 50th birthday a week ago, on March 28, the day of the last day of mobilization. He grew up in Les Baux-de-Provence. An only son, the parents run a brasserie-restaurant, and he is very close to a completely different career: that of a tennis referee! He passed his diplomas, rose to the chair of main referee in many tournaments and even found himself at Roland Garros at the age of 16, in 1989 – the year of Chang’s victory (with the underhand serve against Lendl).

Chairman of the CFTC since 2019

He is only line judge and will not make a job of it in the end. But he still learns a lot from it today. “I was not professional, I had been offered it but I had refused at the time because I did not want to leave my family, I was in love, all that, remembers Cyril Chabanier. At Roland Garros, you can only be a linesman if you are not a professional. It brought me a lot of things in my work today because when you are on the central, in a stadium with 15,000 people who, because you said that the ball was fault of the darling of the public, you deals with all the names of birds for 15 minutes, it teaches you to make a decision and know how to mediate when there is a bit of a quarrel between the players.

Cyril Chabanier will be linesman three years in a row at Roland Garros. For the rest of the year, he finally studies economics for a master’s degree and then a DESS in survey engineering in social sciences. It follows in the footsteps of family allowances in the Paris region. Then at the CNAF in 2000 as a statistician. Very quickly elected to the Works Council, he was then a union delegate and climbed into the mysteries of the union until becoming its president in 2019.

“I remain convinced that our values ​​are an advantage and not a disadvantage, you still have to know how to sell them!”

Cyril Chabanier, President of the CFTC

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The CFDT and the CFTC obviously have a common backbone since the CFDT was born from the split with the CFTC in 1964. Both are universalists and defend a universal point-based retirement system. The difference lies in the C of CFTC for “Christian”, which Cyril Chabanier fully assumes. “I turned to the CFTC because there are these values ​​which are Christian social inspirations, we are reformist, constructive. On life time reconciliation, the CFTC was fifteen years ahead, thanks to our values. On social utility, we’ve had an eight-year head start. There’s a lot of communication work to be done, I’m trying to do it and that’s why I was elected, to have a side more dynamic, younger, and putting those things forward.”

OM for Chabanier, FC Nantes for Berger

The CFTC, on the other hand, avoids commenting on social issues such as marriage for all. He himself refuses to give his personal position so as not to involve his union but insists on the fact that he considered himself above all “progressive”.

His singing accent bears witness to this: Cyril Chabanier also claims his southern origins. In Paris during the week “for work”, but near Avignon as soon as he can on weekends where he lives with his wife and her two children. Proof of this attachment to his region, he called us back some time after the interview for “capital information” which he absolutely wanted. “Please say that I am also an OM supporter!”. The subject comes up regularly during inter-union breaks. A real difference, for once, with Laurent Berger, historic supporter of FC Nantes.


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