Laurent Berger (Cfdt) and Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux (Medef) during a press conference on January 30, 2020. – Jacques Witt / SIPA
New controversial poster from the CGT Info Com union. This time, it was the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, who paid the price. The union published on Saturday evening on its Twitter account
a photo montage of a movie poster titled Sado and Maso with in the two main roles Laurent Berger and the boss of Medef,
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
“Special dedication to @ CfdtBerger of @ CFDT on his practice of unionism which prefers to defend the interests of @ medef than employees and those who act to protect them from
Covid-19! “It is also written in the tweet published Saturday evening.
FOR A “RESPONSIBLE” TRADE UNION!
Special dedication to @CfdtBerger of @CFDT on his practice of unionism which prefers to defend the interests of @medef than employees and those who act to protect them from Covid-19! pic.twitter.com/2XPw93ZCrP– Info’Com-CGT (@InfoComCGT) May 9, 2020
“Fighting homophobia from wherever it comes, even from the left”
A montage deemed homophobic which quickly aroused a wave of indignation
on social media. Many internet users, but also personalities and elected politicians, have condemned this assembly, and called for its removal. “I imagine that the @ lacgtcommunique will condemn this insult against another union with the utmost firmness, adding that it is clearly homophobic! “Wrote Emmanuel Grégoire, Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy mayor of Paris. “Delete,” tweeted feminist activist Caroline De Haas. “At @ stop_homophobia we stay on our line by fighting homophobia wherever it comes from, even from the left,” wrote the association Stop homophobie.
I imagine that @lacgtcommunique will condemn this insult against another union with the utmost firmness, adding that it is clearly homophobic! https://t.co/KqrCYkv1WE
– Emmanuel GREGOIRE (@egregoire) May 9, 2020
When it is not his striking militants, it is directly the com service of @lacgtcommunique which stigmatizes gay relations, then read it “sadomasochism” as “sexual perversion” ???? @ stop_homophobie https://t.co / QFRggxv6L6
– Arnaud STOP Homophobie (@Arnaud_STOP) May 10, 2020
The CGT and several other sections of the union have also dissociated themselves from the CGT Info Com, demanding the removal of this photo montage.
The CGT unreservedly condemns these posters. This type of communication only discredits union action. At the Cgt, we have other arguments than those, those of the interests of workers and social justice.
– CGT (@lacgtcommunique) May 10, 2020
Delete
– Syndicat CGT CGI (@CgtCgiFrance) May 10, 2020
Delete
– CGT Éducation 78 (@ CGTEducAction78) May 9, 2020
The CFDT also reacted this Sunday morning, demanding the “immediate removal of these posters”. “These posters are ignoble. They are an insult to all employees and agents who vote for the CFDT, as well as for its members, “said the union in a statement, condemning” with the utmost firmness “this campaign. “Union disputes do not justify any slanderous act against people, no degrading attack and no homophobic message,” added the confederation.
Already several controversial posters
Faced with the accusations, the CGT Info Com reacted a few hours later, refuting the homophobic nature of the photo montage, and explaining what the practice of sado-masochism was. “Some internet users interpret this poster as homophobic. It is not so. We recall that sado-masochism is a sexual perversion (practiced by heterosexuals or homosexuals) in which the excitement is obtained under the action of physical pain and humiliation (masochism) and by inflicting suffering on the partner (sadism ) ”.
Note Bene 2: in which the excitement is obtained by the action of physical pain and humiliation (masochism) and by inflicting pain on the partner (sadism).
– Info’Com-CGT (@InfoComCGT) May 9, 2020
This is not the first time that the posters of the CGT Info Com have been controversial. In 2016, the union published a poster entitled “Work law, stop the repression! “On which we saw police officers walking on a soil stained with red reminiscent of blood and another showing a baton and a CRS badge, near a puddle of blood, titled” The police must protect the citizens and not the hit “.
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