Federation of General Unions of National Education
# Federation of General Unions of National Education

The Federation of General Unions of National Education (French: Fédération des syndicats généraux de l'Éducation nationale, 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
