Trade unions or professional associations of persons exercising the same profession, similar trades or related trades contributing to the production of specific products or the same liberal profession may be freely constituted. Notwithstanding these provisions, private individuals employing domestic workers may form a trade union to defend the interests they have in common as employers of such workers.
The founders of any professional association shall file the articles of association and the names of those who, in any capacity whatsoever, are responsible for its administration or management. This deposit shall be renewed in the event of a change in the management or the articles of association.
Any member of a trade union may, if he fulfils the conditions laid down in article L. 2131-5, accede to the administrative or management functions of this trade union.
Any French member of a professional trade union entrusted with the administration or management of this trade union must enjoy his civic rights and not be subject to any prohibition, disqualification or incapacity relating to his civic rights. Under the same conditions, any foreign national aged eighteen or over who is a member of a trade union may be appointed to the administration or management of that trade union.
In the event of voluntary dissolution, dissolution under the Articles of Association or dissolution by court order, the assets of the Association shall be distributed in accordance with the Articles of Association or, in the absence of provisions in the Articles of Association, in accordance with the rules determined by the General Meeting. Under no circumstances may the association’s assets be divided among its members.
Trade unions have legal personality.
Only employees’ organisations constituted as trade unions are entitled to negotiate collective labour agreements. Any agreement or arrangement concerning collective working conditions shall be concluded under the conditions laid down in Book II.
Professional trade unions have the right to take legal action. They may, before all courts, exercise all the rights reserved to civil parties concerning acts that directly or indirectly harm the collective interests of the profession they represent.
The movable and immovable property required by trade unions for their meetings, libraries and training courses cannot be seized.
Trade unions may: 1° Set up and administer information centres for job offers and applications; 2° Create, administer and subsidise professional provident institutions, educational, training, popularisation or research organisations in areas of interest to the profession; 3° Subsidising production or consumer cooperatives, financing the creation of low-cost housing or the acquisition of land for allotments or physical and sporting activities.
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