Claude Jourdain, former leader of the CGT health federation and municipal councilor of Châlons-sur-Marne, died at the age of 86. A member of the Communist Youth from the age of 15, he joined the PCF at the age of 19. He will be a municipal councilor of Châlons from 1977 to 1983. Elected to the federal secretariat of the CGT federation of health, militant for solidarity between peoples, he will participate in the health branch of the World Trade Union Federation (WFTU).