Background
Jean-Pierre was born in 1946, in Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France.
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Jean-Pierre Marie Page
Edit Profilenational trade union leader former head of international dept. of CGT editor La pensée Libre
Education
After high school, studies art history at the institute arts and crafts paris.
Studied in 1966 paintings restoration with Gustav Kliman in Boston (USA).
Trade union and political studies in 1976-1977 in Paris.
Career
Jean-Pierre is a national trade union leader, former head of international dept. of CGT, editor La pensée Libre.
Achievements
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International relations with trade union confederations and national, governmental, professional, international, academic and research institutions. Head of training and research institutes. Member/delegate of official and international national representations. Participant in numerous national and international trade union and political congresses. Member and head of official delegations. Negotiator, writer of reports, policy papers and resolutions. Facilitator and speaker at national and international conferences. Speaker, educator/educator/commentator, publisher, writer, member of several editorial boards.
- Co-Director of the Louis Saillant Institute of Education and Research
- Member of the official delegation of France to the UN General Assembly in New York (1990-1999)
- Member of the CGT delegation and of the workers' group at ILO sessions
- Coordinator for the WSF, CMT, ICFTU of trade union participation at the UN Social Summit in Copenhagen in 1995.
- Moderator of the World Trade Union Federation Congresses in Havana (1982), Damascus, Syria (1994) and Havana Cuba (2005).
- Organiser of the International Conference "Trade Union Issues in Europe and the USA" Université Marne La Vallée (France).
- Moderator of the International Conference on “Renewal of International Trade Unionism”, Cairo, Egypt, 1998.
- Organizer of the “A century of organised labor in France” Conference at New York University and Colombia University, New York, USA, 1996.
- Organizer of the World Trade Union Conference, “A Job for All Around the World” Paris. 1995.
1981 – 2000: Member of the Confederal Executive Commission of the CGT, the largest French Trade Union Confederation
1979 – 1991: Secretary General of the Departmental Union of Trade Unions CGT of Val de Marne
1976 – 1979: Secretary of the Union Départementale des syndicats CGT du Val de Marne
1971 – 1976: Secretary of the Syndicat Général du personnel d'Air France CGT- Head of the CGT unions at Orly Airport.
1970 – 2001: Senior executive at Air France.
1966- 1968: Director of the Joan Peterson Gallery Boston, USA:
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Politics
Author of numerous articles on the international situation and trade unionism translated in fifteen countries including China, India, Russia, USA, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Cuba, Sri Lanka, France etc., and author of several books: «A century of organized labor in France» 1997 New York, «Un AMI peut cacher un autre» 1998 Geneva, «Mondialisation et citoyenneté» 1998 Paris, «Maitres du monde»1999 Paris, «Réflexions sur la guerre en Yougoslavie» 2000 Paris, «L'empire attaque» 2002 Paris, «Comrades, I ask for the floor» Invest'action 2016 Brussels. 2018: "CGT: pour que les choses soient dit", Delga, Paris. 2018; "The Other Way for Humanity", collective book 100 intellectuals commit to a post-capitalism, Delga, Paris.
Personality
Organizer of several exhibitions of Contemporary Art: in 1966, exhibition Calder, Jason Berger, Marilyn Powers, John Singer Sargent. Makes a short film for NBC in the form of a dialogue with Andy Warhol. 1968-69 works and campaigns for the boycott of the Sao Paulo Biennale alongside Guy de Rougemont, Julio Leparc, Gérard Fromanger, Cruz Diez, Meri Jolivet, Biagio Paccino. 1970-72 created "Vivlalib" with Julien Blaine and Daniel Daligand. Exhibits at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. 1986: organizes the «centenary of May 1st» tribute of several painters including Matta, Ipoustéguy, Albert Féraud, Kijno, Ouzani, Jean-Pierre Jouffroy, Catherine Viollet. 1987 «Painting in Europe» bringing together artists from all European countries, 2E/2M Concert de Musique contemporaine. 1989 «French contemporary art» on the occasion of the bi centenary of the Great French Revolution in Alma Ata (Kazakhstan) including Ollivier Debré. 2011 «Reflejos» a tribute of Cuban painting in Sri Lanka in Havana, then itinerant exhibition at the Palais des Nations de l'ONU in Geneva 2012, and in Colombo 2016 with Ernesto Rancanio, Kcho, Choco, Alicia Leal, Juan Moreira, Mendive, Balseiro,Mabel Poblet, Sandor, Ares, Cirenaica Moreira, Bonachea, Abela, Dumith Kulasekara, Vajirah Wijewarda, Prageet Ratnayake.
Connections
Participates in numerous international congresses, conferences, trade unions and politicians, academics in nearly 100 countries. Participant and intervenor since its creation of the World Social Forum (WSF) (Porto Allègre) and the Pan Amazonian Forum (Belém). Initiator and leader of the Latin American continental march against the Wall of Shame (US-Mexico border)
Founder in 1997 of the “Observatory on Globalization”, leader of the successful international fight against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), member of the Foundation’s Board: “International Forum on Globalisation (IFG)” San Francisco (USA), Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Economic and Social Research ISERES-CGT and Chairman of the International Working Group of ISERES, member of the Secretariat and the Council of the Institute for Research «Espaces Marx» Paris.
Former editor of the journal «Syndicalisme et société». Member of the editorial board of several journals: «Correspondance Internationales», «La Pensée», «Lutas Sociales» in Brazil, «Debate abierto» in Venezuela, editor-in-chief of the theoretical journal «La pensée libre» (philosophical, anthropological, political, cultural review).
