In 2014, the CGT had identified 210,000 demonstrators across France, and the Ministry of Interior 99,000
The Paris show was also more sparse 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 vast post-bombings mobilization of 11 January and in a context of rise of the National Front
FO and CFDT are a separate group
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.
The number of the CGT had a nice welcome “true May 1 unit at European level” with rallies worn by “the same slogans”, others have deplored Display disagreements 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 overly night its effectiveness, “has analyzed Luc Berille of Unsa who on May 1 could be an opportunity to” present a different image of trade unionism “.
Overcome” Component quarrels ”
The head of the FSU Bernadette Groison has it, called “overcome the quarrels of devices” to “restore 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 have a life, a family, a body which is not inexhaustible,” pointing Macron the law, Economy Minister “right”.
Operation “déringardisation” the CFDT
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.
Against “the austerity mold”
Occasionally, FO militants were in the ranks of the demonstrators, but at national level, the union had shunned the call to unity.
No way “and do the splits, under the pretext that we must bring everyone together, to march with those who are against the 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 alone, has paid claims from Bordeaux, where he again lashed “the austerity mold” that eventually, he said, by do “democratic havoc.”
The “festival” of the CFDT
Meanwhile, the CFDT heard “déringardiser” trade unionism and at the same time on May 1, because he wants to “stop thinking 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” .
The program of his “Working time festival”: debates, workshops, concerts or introduction to yoga
(With AFP)
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