Each May 1, its particularity. Long confiscated by the spectacular military parades on Red Square in Moscow, Labor Day and workers in France was also an opportunity for unions to show their unity and strength … Then the family Le Pen came transform today holiday policy meeting when the parades clairsemaient.
this year, May 1 falls like a countdown. Tuesday the National Assembly considers the law Myriam El Khomri on simplifying and modernizing the labor code. A calendar nearby making this a special day May 1. The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve sent Saturday to the prefects a telegram detailing the measures to be taken to avoid overflows this May 1, while unions and government pass the buck of responsibility of violence.
William Martinet, president of the UNEF, acknowledged that the event organizers had to “do more” to secure the processions. The Left Party has in turn asked Saturday “accountable” Mr. Cazeneuve facing an “escalation of violence” police during demonstrations calling for the abandonment of defense launchers balls.
CGT and FO side by side
The Secretaries general Philippe Martinez (CGT) and Jean-Claude Mailly (FO) will walk side by side in Paris Bastille from 15:00 to Nation for claiming “social progress and the withdrawal of labor law.” Leaders of FSU, Solidaires and student organizations (UNEF) and high school (UNL and LDIFs) will also attend. Demonstrations and rallies are planned throughout France.
In the morning, Mr. Mailly went to Wall Federated in Pere Lachaise cemetery in honor of the Commune, a FO tradition, before a Republican aperitif late morning Place Gambetta in the 20th arrondissement in Paris.
Convergence struggles
Meanwhile, the reformists (CFDT, CFTC and UNSA) are found together in the morning during round tables, one of which concerns the labor law they support. For this camp, no question “requesting withdrawal of a carrier text of progress for workers,” recalls Lawrence Berger, secretary general of the CFDT who rents, among others, the establishment of personal business account (CPA) under that Act.
Since 2013, CGT and CFDT no longer together march on May 1, their relationship has deteriorated after approval by Laurent Berger central to the agreement on securing employment, denounced by the CGT. The labor law has exacerbated the division between the first two French unions.
On May 1 this year takes a special turn with the advent of “standing Night” launched the evening of 31 March, the day of the biggest mobilization against the labor law (390,000 people in 250 cities, according to authorities, 1.2 million according to the organizers). Sunday, union officials have planned to make up the Republic, but not the numbers of them.
Thursday, Philippe Martinez y intervened for the first time, to discuss the “convergence of struggles” at a time where 63% of the French believe that neither Night stand, neither unions nor the parties are “in tune with the employees,” according to a survey released Friday Odoxa. However seven of ten French people believe that “the class struggle is a reality in France”.
A tradition born in Chicago in 1886
Workers Day, celebrated in many country, was born in Chicago in 1886 at the initiative of a trade union movement claiming the working day of eight hours. But “it is primarily a holiday today and the historical or political sense is lost. This is related to the decline in union representation in all companies, not only in France,” notes Sylvain Niel, lawyer specializing in labor law.
last year, May 1 rallies had attracted tens of thousands of demonstrators (110,000, according to the CGT, 76,000 according to police) all over France, whose 9000-12000 in Paris.
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