For each May 1 its particularity. Long confiscated by the spectacular military parades on Red Square in Moscow, Labor Day and workers in France was also an opportunity for unions to show their unity and strength … Then the family Le Pen came transform today holiday policy meeting when the parades clairsemaient.
this year, May 1 falls like a countdown. On Tuesday, the National Assembly considers the law Myriam El Khomri on the simplification and modernization of the Labour Code. A calendar nearby making this a special day May 1st. The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve sent Saturday to the prefects a telegram detailing the measures to be taken to avoid overflows this May 1, while unions and government pass the buck of responsibility of violence.
William Martinet, president of the UNEF, acknowledged that the event organizers had to “do more” to secure the processions. The Left Party has, meanwhile, Saturday asked “accountable” Mr. Cazeneuve facing an “escalation of violence” by the police during demonstrations calling for the abandonment of defense launchers balls.
CGT and FO side by side
The Secretaries general Philippe Martinez (CGT) and Jean-Claude Mailly (FO) will walk side by side in Paris from 15 hours of Bastille Nation to demand “social progress and the withdrawal of labor law.” Leaders of FSU, Solidaires and student organizations (UNEF) and high school (UNL and LDIFs) will also attend. Demonstrations and rallies are planned throughout France.
In the morning, Mr. Mailly goes to the wall of Federated at Père-Lachaise in honor of the Commune, a FO tradition, before a Republican aperitif late morning Place Gambetta in the 20th arrondissement in Paris.
Convergence struggles
Meanwhile, the reformists (CFDT, CFTC and UNSA) are found together in the morning, during round tables, one of which concerns the labor law they support. For this camp, no question “requesting withdrawal of an advance text carrier for workers,” says Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT who rents, among others, the establishment of personal account activity (CPA ) provided in the law.
Since 2013, CGT and CFDT no longer together march on May 1st, their relationship has deteriorated after approval by Laurent Berger central to the agreement on securing employment, denounced by the CGT. Labor law has exacerbated the division between the first two French unions.
On May 1 this year takes a special turn with the advent of Night standing launched on the evening of 31 March, day of the biggest mobilization against the labor law (390 000 people in 250 cities, according to authorities, 1.2 million according to the organizers). Sunday, union officials have planned to visit Republic Square, not the number one.
Thursday, Philippe Martinez y intervened for the first time, to discuss the “convergence of struggles” to a time when 63% of the French consider that neither Night stand, neither unions nor the parties are “in tune with the employees,” according to a survey released Friday Odoxa. However, seven out of ten French consider that “the class struggle is a reality in France”.
A tradition born in Chicago in 1886
Workers Day, celebrated in many countries, was born in Chicago in 1886 at the initiative of a trade union movement claiming the working day of eight hours. But “it is primarily a holiday today and the historical or political sense is lost. This is related to the decline of union representation in all companies, not only in France, “notes Sylvain Niel, a lawyer specializing in labor law.
Last year, gatherings of 1 May had attracted tens of thousands of demonstrators (110,000, according to the CGT, 76,000 according to police) everywhere in France, 9000 12 000 in Paris.
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