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The General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération générale du travail CGT) is a national trade union center the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions.It is the largest in terms of votes (32.1% at the 2002 professional election 34.0% in the 2008 election) and second largest in terms of membership numbers.Its membership decreased to 650000 members in 1995–96 (it had more than doubled when François Mitterrand was elected President in 1981) before increasing today to between 700000 and 720000 members slightly fewer than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT).According to the historian M.
