From Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) to Lille (Nord), some 62,000 people participating, according to police, marched Friday before 14.30 hours for Labor Day, before the start at 15 hours the Paris show, with a few thousand demonstrators . As 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 order of words “” against austerity and for the globalization of social progress. “
Meanwhile, Luke Berille, secretary general of the UNSA, lamented the image given by the divided unions. Unlike last year, when Workers Power joined the CGT for the Feast of workers to denounce the government’s policy, the central Jean-Claude Mailly made band apart and did not join the other unions place the Republic. 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.
The CFDT, she heard “déringardiser” trade unionism and at the same time on May 1, because it “must stop to consider 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 met in his 3000 youth Bois de Vincennes, in the twelfth arrondissement.
VIDEO. May 1: Mailly (FO) warns “against austerity”
Mélenchon: May 1, an opportunity to “show teeth”
“On May 1, has never been a feast of good boys and girls nice, said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-founder of the Left Party at the Paris show. “This is a day when we just show teeth to remind that employees have a life, a family, a body which is not inexhaustible, and that those who claim to make them work tirelessly in all circumstances everyday, Saturday, Sunday, we deserve largely be angry against them even if they are called Macron and pretend to be left “, he criticized.
The province mobilizations
In Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), transit workers and employees of Airbus head marched, sang or danced under umbrellas. “The heart is still there!” Assured Helena, 52, educator specializing in the pink city.
in Lyon (Rhone), lily of the valley bouquet in one hand and umbrella All in all, 2,000 people gathered in many processions (CGT, FSU but also EELV, Left Party, Dare feminism, Solidarity, Workers Struggle), the traditional chanting “Workers, workers of all countries, unite us “but also launching attacks against the Macron law:” It is the law of money, and bosses, withdrawal, withdrawal of Macron law “
in Marseille (. Bouches-du-Rhône), 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 and solidarity in the world. “
Bordeaux (Gironde) has seen 2,000 people, Nantes (Loire Atlantique1) 1500 and Montpellier (Hérault) 1200 Lille (Nord) 600, according to police sources.
In Strasbourg (Down -rhin), there were 1,100 according to police, 2000 according to the demonstrators to march to say “No to austerity”. Other demonstrations were held at the same time Metz (Moselle), Nancy (Meuthe-et-Moselle), or Colmar and Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) *
old number One of the CGT, Bernard Thibault, ruled Friday that there were “too many unions in France.” “The French trade unionism suffers both his division and multiplication of actors,” said he told Europe 1.
He said that “every time the unions are divided on the claims to defend this weakens the union message. ” And “those who thought that by multiplying the unions, we would encourage the adherence rate of employees in unions, the inverse demonstration is being done,” he added. “Besides the CGT, in its articles, advocates that employees are united in the same union,” said one former number of the CGT.
VIDEO. Thibaut: “Trade unionism suffers from the multiplication of actors’
Thibault:” There are too many unions in France “ by Europe1fr
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