Carrying out his entire professional career at the PTT, this unionist known for his fight for the transformation of the salary condition had almost been secretary general of FO. He died on September 4 at the age of 86.
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animated throughout his unionist fights for “the transformation of the salary condition” by a “reformist spirit”, he had almost been secretary general of Force Ouvrière (FO). Honorary Inspector General of Social Affairs, Claude Pitous died on September 4 at his home in Layrac (Lot-et-Garonne) from a long illness, at the age of 86. Born January 3, 1936 in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), the year of the Popular Front, he started his professional life as a coverage agent from 1955 to 1957. During his military service, where he spent two years in Algeria, He prepares and completed his admission competition to the PTT. He is assigned to the Argentan sorting center (Orne).
Claude Pitous made his entire professional career, from 1960 to 1989, to PTTs as an operating officer and then as a receiver. In 1960, he joined the FOTT Federation of FO and will represent his union in all confederate congresses from that of 1963 which saw André Bergeron access the post of secretary general. Secretary General of the PTT Federation in 1978, he entered the Confederate Office of FO, in January 1982, his management, where he was in charge of the French overseas departments and territories, wage negotiations in the public sector and union training. From 1979 to 1984, he signed at the Economic and Social Council, and from 1979 to 1985 to the National Commission for Data Protection.
Cultivating his discretion to the point of sometimes appearing erased, Claude Pitous does not seek to put himself forward. But this apparent reserve badly conceals a great strength of conviction. He exhibits it with pedagogy during the training sessions which he heads at the Château de la Brévière, in the forest of Compiègne. “We are not intended to access the direction of the State, he explains to the future executives of its organization. This independence is one of the keys to our internal unity.” Firmly anti-communist, this “pure sugar reformist” is wary of the CFDT which “managed to make the unionism of appearance and trompe-l’oeil”. Social-democrat never affiliated with the Socialist Party, he wants to be first pragmatic.
Author of two books published in the 1980s on account of the author, a particular path and principles and perspectives of reformist unionism, Claude Pitous defines his fight without emphasis: “We are gaggeous,” he proclaims , because we are able to sign small compromises that give small more. The addition of the little ones, that makes big more. “It is this reasonable profile which leads André Bergeron, when the time comes to pass the hand, to make it his unofficial dolphin. Without ever displaying this support publicly, the old leader wants above all to block Marc Blondel, which he does not support.
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