Paris (AFP) – Amid deep union divisions, tens of thousands of demonstrators (110,000 according to the CGT, 74,000 according to police) celebrated on Friday, May 1, at least provided processions that last year, uncoordinated and often in the rain.
In 2014, the CGT had identified 210,000 demonstrators across France, and the Ministry of Interior 99,000.
The Paris show was also sparser than last year: between 9,000 and 12,000 people, according to sources, beat the pavement between the Republic and the Nation’s call -CGT four unions, FSU, Solidaires and Unsa -. Watchwords: opposition to austerity policies in Europe and the defense of freedom of expression, in the wake of the extensive mobilization post the 11 January and in a context of rising National Front
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In this procession where as many flags floated party foreign workers, lacked Force Ouvrière and the CFDT, though invited to strengthen the trade union front.
The number of the CGT had beautiful welcome a “real May 1 unit at European level” with rallies worn by “the same slogans,” others lamented 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 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” for “giving back hope to the employees “.
Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT for 14 years, went further by ruling that there is” too many unions in France, “and had to” strive for unification “.
Present the edge of the parade, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has meanwhile estimated that 1 May was an opportunity for employees to” show teeth “and recall that” they a life, a family, a body which is not inexhaustible, “pointing to the Macron law, Minister of Economy” right “
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A total of 300 shows were recorded in the country.
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, special education teacher.
lily bouquet in one hand and umbrella in the other, 2,000 people gathered in Lyon traditional chanting “Workers, workers of all countries, unite us” but also through calls for the withdrawal of the Macron law, “the law of money, and patrons”.
Bordeaux has seen 2,000 people, 1,800 Marseille, Nantes 1,500 1,200 Montpellier, Strasbourg over 1000, slightly less than 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 to unity.
No way to “do the splits and under the pretext that we must bring everyone together, to march with those who are not against austerity nor Macron law, “summed Jacques Girod, the Paris federation FO that graced the Federated in Paris.
Jean-Claude Mailly, head of FO, which traditionally it alone, has paid claims from Bordeaux, where he again lashed “the austerity mold” that eventually, he said, by making “democratic havoc.”
For his side, 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 estimated its general secretary Laurent Berger. No procession, then, but a festive gathering that brought together 2,000 young people in the Vincennes forest, according to the union.
“Obviously the unions must work together,” assured the leader of the reformist center. 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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