Etienne Camy-Peyret

Etienne Camy-Peyret is a Syndicaliste French, born on June 20th 1922 with Mauléon and deceased on December 21st 2006 with the Canopy.

Wire of a laic teacher of the Béarn, it initially follows the way traced by his father and entrea in 1938 to the teacher training school of Lescar. Teacher in 1941, it exerts in Igon before being deputy with the modern college of Nay. At the conclusion of its course of normalien, in 1943, it is allowed with the National university of Saint-Cloud like at the preparatory National school with teaching in the technical sections of colleges (future ENSET).

It does not concretize however immediately these admissions. Refractory with the STO (Service of Obligatory Work), it enters the Secret Armée. In 1944, it suction, is attached near the departmental commander of FFI. This engagement will be worth the to him Croix of the voluntary combatant of the Résistance.

To the autumn 1944, it enters to the National university of technical education (ENSET), where it syndicates with SNET and is elected secretary of the local union of the school. At its exit of the school, in 1946, as certified professor of mathematics, it is named at the professional national school (the ENP are at the origin of the technical schools) of Metz. The following year, he is elected departmental secretary of the SNET of the Moselle, and the departmental section of the Federation of the state education of CGT.

Militant “ cégétiste ”, in favor of the maintenance of the federation within the CGT, it practices, like many militants of this current, the double affiliation after the FEN decided autonomy, in 1948. Etienne Camy-Peyret is thus Member of the administrative Commission of the CGT departmental union of the Moselle until in 1952, while remaining secretary of the autonomous FEN.

In 1952, it is elected on the list “ Unit and Action ” at the national administrative commission of the SNET, which is a des ” rare trade unions of the FEN to practice the heterogeneity of the executives. Those associate until 1956 militants “ autonomous, largely majority, and members of the C.G.T. Thus in 1953, Etienne Camy-Peyret, though elected of current minority, assures during one year the academic secretariat of the SNET of the academy of Strasbourg on which depended at the time the Moselle.

1954 is one pivotal year in the life of Etienne Camy-Peyret. Professionally, it is transferred in Oise, at the professional national school of Creil, called “ school of the street of Gournay ” (which will become then the College Marie-Curie of Nogent-sur-Oise). It also conforms to the directive of the political office of the Communist party, and gives up the double affiliation to concentrate its trade-union activity in the FEN. He is elected this year there at the National office of the SNET, on the list renamed member of the C.G.T. “ Union for a Union action Efficace ” (UASE). The following year, it enters to the national federal administrative commission of FEN.

In 1956, it takes the head of the tendency UASE of the SNET, at the moment when the direction of this trade union decides to conform to the federal decisions relating to the homogeneity of the exécutifs : under the crook of Georges Lauré (who will become general secretary of FEN), with Bernard Roulet (1957-60), then with Louis Astre (1960-66), militants UASE are not associated any more with the executive of the trade union. That does not prevent Etienne Camy-Peyret and his fellow candidates to maintain their line of refusal of the confrontation block against block and to carry variable appreciations on the activity of the trade-union direction, appreciation which often goes in the direction of a support for its action.

In the middle of the years 1960, it supports the logic of bringing together of the SNET and the SNES, which leads to the fusion of both Syndicat S within new SNES (traditional, modern, technical) in 1966. It takes then, with André Drubay, of the SNES, the direction of the new current “ Unit and Action ”, born from the fusion of current UASE of the SNET and the “ list B ” of the SNES.

After a short interval of minority direction of the autonomous current, with the support of the elected officials " gauchistes" , the vote of the trade unionists gives the majority, in 1967, in Unité and Action, causing a clap of thunder in the FEN. Etienne Camy-Peyret is then elected assistant general secretary of the SNES, under the direction of André Drubay, general secretary, which it succeeds this station in 1971.

It will remain during ten years general secretary of the SNES, marking its personality one decade which was at the same time that of the rise to power of its tendency, of the growing autonomy of the claiming line of the SNES, but also of the difficulties of the Union of the left and the common Programme, to which Etienne Camy-Peyret was very attached. Its role in the change of the trade union, until there very marked by an image of teaching elite, towards a more claiming and unit trade unionism, was essential, and its action deeply marked the trade-union culture of the SNES.

In June 1981, after the victory of the left to the presidential election and with legislative, Etienne Camy-Peyret leaves, at almost sixty years, the direction of the trade union to its dauphin" Gerard Alaphilippe. In January 1982, it is named adviser technical with the cabinet of Charles Fiterman, Minister for Transport. He concretizes then his adhesion with the French Communist party, which he had never wanted to do as long as he was trade unionist.

After a short passage to the section of the foreign relations of the Economic and Social Council of 1985 at 1986, it reduces its militant activity, taking part all the same in the national office of reprocessed SNES, before devoting itself to the transmission of the historical heritage in the form of testimonys in particular for IRHSES (Research institute on the History of the Trade unionism in Secondary educations) and for the biographical Dictionary of the French labor movement (known as “ Maitron ”).

Etienne Camy-Peyret was decorated with the Légion of honor (Knight) and with the Academic Palmes (Officer).

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