Work Fest: between 8500 and 12000 demonstrators in Paris
Under a light rain, but in a festive atmosphere, between 8500 (according to police) and 12,000 people (according to the CGT) marched Friday in Paris to occasion of May 1 to protest against austerity. Four -CGT unions, FSU, Solidaires and Unsa – had called for demonstrations together between Republic and Nation. Disagree with the slogans nor the CFDT FO or did not participate at the Paris show.
head of the procession with the leaders of the FSU, Solidaires and Unsa, Philippe Martinez, leader of the CGT, welcomed that “Europe-wide, there have been rallies with the same slogans, “” against austerity and for the globalization of social progress. ” Yet in 2014, 65,000 protesters had been recorded by the union. But the Workers Force had joined then the parade.
Meanwhile, Luke Berille, secretary general of the UNSA, lamented the image given by the divided unions. Unlike last year, when she joined the CGT, did not join the other unions Republic Square. Without sharing claims with other unions, Jean-Claude Mailly brought hers from Bordeaux (Gironde), where he again lashed “the mold of austerity” that will end, he said, by “make havoc democratic “. Occasionally, FO militants were in the ranks of the demonstrations.
VIDEO. May 1: Mailly (FO) warns “against austerity”
The CFDT, she heard “déringardiser” trade unionism and at the same time on May 1, because it “must stop considering that there are immutable traditions “, as estimated its general secretary Laurent Berger. No procession, then, but a “Working Time Festival” for those under 36, who gathered in his 3000 youth Bois de Vincennes, in the twelfth arrondissement.
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