A May 1 of austerity – the New Republic

Rain, labor strife, long weekend … the party workers gathered little beyond the union ranks, Friday at Tours.

From the rear of the procession, almost, red and white flags through the crowd. Force Ouvrière advances, inter banner in hand. Stéphane Deplobin, secretary general of the CGT 37 tempers their enthusiasm: FO has joined the Inter in extremis, but the banner will remain a few steps behind that of the CGT. For family photo, representatives of each signatory of the call are invited to come forward: CGT, FSU, Solidaires and FO align
Throughout France, the Inter agreement applies to the. UNSA, but not for FO … In Tours is UNSA who stormed out after a FO coup to put black on white Macron opposition to the law on inter-union call. ” the bickering between unions that plague some this “party of workers”.

“Not a rallying point”

This Friday morning from the edge of the avenue de Grammont, the duty officer counted close to 600 protesters. We are far, far away, the symbolic mobilization of 2002, which meant standing up to the breakthrough of the National Front for president. Far as the 35,000 people who marched on January 11 on the same avenue, on behalf of “republican values” , or even nearly 2,000 demonstrators’ anti-austerity “gathered by the 9 unions April. “A long weekend, the rain … it’s not a very inspiring visit” , Eric Sionneau breath for Solidarity 37. However, “The Macron law, politics Austerity, the catastrophic social climate, it is news, “ hammer with one voice – rare – FO and CGT 37 37.
The mess that led to the signing of intersyndical the call made shrug in the ranks of the procession. “It is regrettable that there are no more organizations, admits the tips of Stéphane Deplobin lips This year UNSA is not there, but yes FO. “ The 1 ^st May will not have escaped the strife surrounding the signing of the responsibility pact, which the CFDT and UNSA are favorable. “We are sorry but we are not angry … When there are other inter-union, we will be there,” also relativized Vincent Le Roy, departmental secretary SE- Unsa, present from the event despite its withdrawal from the Inter-call.
If some political parties (NPA, the Left Front, PC) and a collective association, Alternatiba, joined in the march, few citizens unlabeled mingled in the parade. The “bickering” union could they scrambled the message?