At « 20 minutes », the comments of the Director General to a union representative do not pass – Liberation

Tell a transgender employee « Look at, it looks like a frankly clown » During a registered trade union meeting, does it come from transphobia or not? If the answer seems simple, the question has been contorting for almost two weeks the direction of the online media 20 minutes.

Originally, there was an incident that took place on Friday, May 23 during a negotiation meeting between union representatives – at 20 minutes, They are three – and the management. During this meeting where several subjects are swept away, the discussion tense on a specific point: an agreement on telework. While the tone rises between Lise, CGT delegate of the company, who criticizes the management for having stopped negotiations on this subject, and the director general, Ronan Dubois, who returns the ball to the DS, the latter begins to sing the journalist Trans. « While Lise was speaking, the CEO allowed himself to imitate him in an effeminate voice, to adopt a posture worthy of the worst clichés », wrote a few days later the SNJ-CGT and the SNME-CFDT, in a press release denouncing « A humiliating and discriminatory behavior, constituting transphobia ». “It was very shocking visually, I was taped. It’s still our CEO… ” relates today to Release Hakima, CFDT delegate.

Like Hakima, Lise remains mouth. « I say: “Are we in the theater? We’re at the circus? What is this