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Since then water flowed under the bridge

Funny anniversary to the UIMM. There will be a year tomorrow, the financial scandal of the Union of industries and trades of the metallurgy broke out at the big day. "Le Figaro" revealed that the Paris Prosecutor's Office had to be a matter of distribution of liquid money orchestrated by Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac, President of the UIMM and social Chief negotiator of the Medef. In a few weeks, the amazed France learned that the employer Federation had spent EUR 19 million, in denominations of 100 euros, "funding of organizations of social life" in the country between 2000 and 2007.

Since then, water flowed under the bridge. If the destination of the funds remains a mystery, a judicial investigation was opened, several guards to view successive and review were a dozen personalities of metallurgy. In addition, the UIMM chose a new President in the person of Frederic Saint-Geours, has sacked its former leaders and reformed its statutes. After weeks of media with the Medef of Laurence Parisot war, it lost many employer mandates (the commission use of Medef, President of Unedic, the piloting of joint negotiations on the market of work...) but it remains in the Office in all the working groups and the Medef employers.

This morning, the Council of the UIMM must take a new step in deciding the allocation of its reserves. The capital in possession amounts to 332 million euros. Last year, it represented a potential of stock capital gains of EUR 617 million, but the financial crisis is over there and the amount of the prize pool now represents some 590 million euros.

The envelope divided by three

According to our information, the envelope will be mainly divided into three. The first part will be used to cover the accounting losses in fiscal year 2007 (4.7 million euros), to finance the recurrent deficit of the Organization (2.6 million per year) and to support "risks tax" to a possible conviction in court. The second part (approximately EUR 90 million) will go build two foundations, one devoted to training and insertion, the other at the University and research. Two entities that the UIMM will commit to feed by complementary funds for five years.

Finally, part 3, the balance of the reserves will continue to operate the system of "solidarity" at the root of the scandal. Because the Federation did not intend to give up to have a special fund of mutual aid, as authorized by the Code of labour (article L-2132-6). Said fund be more will call professional support of industries of metallurgy (CPIA) but the UIMM account well that the contributions of its member companies are used to cover the risk of them for strikes. Despite its many appeals of the foot, the Government will have failed to convince the Organization of the avenue de Wagram to help to finance activities of the Grenelle insertion driven by Martin Hirsch. The UIMM argues that other structures management, Germany and Sweden, have a such fund relief, and that under the Code of mutuality, funds are exempt from seizure.