The Federation of General Unions of National Education (, SGEN) is a trade union representing education workers in France.
The union was founded in October 1937, by Guy Raynaud de Lage, François Henry and Paul Vignaux. Despite being a secular union, it decided to join the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC), in preference to the secular but left-wing General Confederation of Labour (CGT). The union argued that the CFTC should also become a secular organisation, and this was achieved in 1964, when the majority of the federation became the French Democratic Confederation of Labour.
By 1995, the union claimed 40,700 members, but by 2017, this had fallen to 24,952.
General Secretaries 1937: Guy Raynaud de Lage 1944: Marcel Reinhard 1946: Guy Raynaud de Lage 1948: Paul Vignaux 1970: Charles Pietri 1972: François Garrigue 1977: Roger Lépiney 1980: Patrice Béghain 1983: Michel Vergnolle 1986: Jean-Michel Boullier 1998: Jean-Luc Villeneuve 2007: Thierry Cadart 2012: Frédéric Sève 2016: Catherine Nave-Bekhti
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