At the bottom of deep differences union, tens of thousands of people celebrated on Friday, May 1, uncoordinated and often in the rain, between demonstrations against austerity led by the CGT festival for youth and the CFDT FO meetings.
After rallies in the morning region, several thousand people marched in the afternoon in Paris of the Republic to the nation, to the call of unions CGT, FSU, Solidaires and Unsa behind the banner “International Solidarity of Workers for peace, progress and social justice, No to austerity in Europe.”
In this procession where many flags floated as foreign workers’ parties lacked Force Ouvrière and the CFDT, though invited to strengthen the trade union front against austerity and to defend freedom of expression in the Following the extensive mobilization post attack of 11 January.
The number of the CGT had a nice welcome “true May 1 unit at European level” with rallies worn by “the same slogans”, others deplored the display of disagreement on this symbolic day of Labor Day.
“We need the unions cares about the look that employees wear on him. The French trade unionism is overly dispersed, divided and it unduly hinders its effectiveness,” has analyzed Luc Berille of UNSA who on May 1 could be an opportunity to “present a different image of trade unionism”.
The head of the FSU Bernadette Groison has it, called “overcome the quarrels of devices” to “restore hope to the employees”.
In the field, workers, and political activists, however, have responded present, although at this time of holiday and eve of a weekend, they were outnumbered last year.
At 2:30 p.m., almost 300 events in France, with 62,000 participants, were identified, police said.
Muguet in one hand and umbrella in the other
Airbus employees and tram workers in mind, Toulouse thus show, sung or danced under umbrellas. “The heart is still there!” He told AFP Helena, 52, educator specializing in the Pink City.
lily bouquet in one hand and umbrella in the other, 2,000 people gathered in Lyon chanting traditional “workers, workers of all countries, unite us” but also through calls for withdrawal Macron the law, “the law of money, and patrons”.
In Marseille, 1,800 people according to police, 10,000 according to organizers marched in the procession CGT-FSU-Solidarity, behind a banner displaying “No to austerity. Social progress, peace, solidarity in the world.”
Bordeaux has seen 2,000 people, 1,500 Nantes and Montpellier 1200, Strasbourg over 1,000, a little less in Lille (600), according to police sources.
Occasionally, FO militants were in the ranks of the demonstrators, but at national level, the union had shunned the call for unity launched by CGT, FSU, UNSA and Solidarity and decided to go it alone.
No way to “do the splits and under the pretext that we must bring everyone together, to march with those who are not against the Macron austerity nor the law, “summed Jacques Girod, the Paris federation FO that graced the Federated Paris.
Without sharing claims with other unions, Jean-Claude Mailly brought hers from Bordeaux, where he again lashed “the mold of austerity” that will end, he said, by do “democratic havoc.”
For its part, the CFDT heard “déringardiser” trade unionism and at the same time on May 1, because it “must stop to consider that there are immutable traditions”, as said its general secretary Laurent Berger . No procession, then, but a festive gathering that brought together 3,000 young people at Bois de Vincennes, according to the union.
“Obviously unions must work together,” he said. But for him, “you must not lie to people. There are two types of unionism,” a “looking at reality, which puts hands dirty” and a “more that is pending” .
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