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They do not disarm. Yet the forced passage by the National Assembly to pass the El Khomri law, using Article 49-3, makes it more unlikely than ever removing the text for which the protesters unions mobilize for three months. Marked by violent incidents in the last rallies, this mobilization is slowing.
On May 12, the fifth day of action has gathered, according to the Ministry of Interior that 55,000 protesters through France (CGT did not give an overall figure) against 390,000 on March 31. Nevertheless, the seven organizations – CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires, UNEF, UNL and LDIFs – called “two new days of strikes and demonstrations,” on 17 and 19 May “I do think that there is still a capacity not only to mobilize but to move the government” , assured, Jean-Claude Mailly, RTL on Monday, May 16.
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the Inter announced strikes rain this week “the. sectors business , she said, filed strike notice, sometimes renewable, on 16 May evening: road transport, Paris Airport, railway, marine, ports and docks. Others work in strong mobilizations, including the strike: trade, energy, utilities, chemicals . “
At the SNCF, CGT, supported by SUD-Rail, has called an indefinite strike renewable every Wednesday and Thursday to weigh first on negotiations about working conditions. But the railway and participate in the movement against El Khomri law, swelling the ranks of the protesters. The strike by truckers, who fear a questioning of overtime should touch Tuesday, according to FO, the North and the cities of Nantes, Marseille and Bordeaux. The CGT intends to block the ports of Le Havre and Nantes-Saint-Nazaire. Strikes may also affect air traffic, La Poste, RATP, banks and insurance.
A strike call without echo
Using the weapon of renewable strikes, the CGT, followed by FO, which is historically its sister enemy since it seceded in 1947, played his last card. During his recent confederal congress in Marseille from 18 to 22 April, many activists of the plant, came mostly from the far left had demanded an indefinite general strike until the withdrawal of the El Khomri law.
Philippe Martinez, who nevertheless opted for a radical strategy of challenging the government, had cleared into touch. The secretary general of the CGT passed to almost unanimously – a quarter of the delegates taking part in the vote – a call to “amplify the response” , on 28 April, when a day action was planned. In the program, the holding of general meetings in companies “so that employees decide, on the basis of their claims and unity of the strike and its renewal to win [the withdrawal of the text] “. But since April 28, this call half goat half cabbage had no echo
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the national Federation of chemical industries of the CGT has shifted peak of the protest. On May 13, she called a “progressive blockage of petroleum products” from 17 to 19 May and in a renewed strike on all petroleum sites, party 20 May. Within the CGT, this federation is one of the most radical. As the food federation, is a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) which she joined in 2014. The WSF is the Communist trade union international. The CGT has left in 1995, and today is a member of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), as the CFDT, FO and CFTC. The WSF became ghostly, held its last congress in Damascus, Syria.
In 2010, at the end of the conflict on the pension reform, the CGT federation of chemistry had blocked several oil refineries . Nicolas Sarkozy was then requisitioned striking workers, threatening them with fines and imprisonment. CGT had complained in 2011 before the Committee on Freedom of the International Labour Organisation which had requested France to refrain from further such acts.
a lost cause?
with this attempt to launch strikes renewable, CGT plays big, and uses his last cartridges. So that they can optionally be effective, this requires two conditions. The first is that they block an activity (transport, fuel depots). Strike a minority in a company will have no effect. The second is that it is written in time, which means to hold until June 13, when the El Khomri law must be debated in the Senate.
Mr. Martinez, who has always rejected the idea of a general strike, is aware of the difficulty of mobilizing. “The mobilization of the building process is in the process of implementing , he observed in the Humanity é of May 12 These are decisions difficult to take, it is not enough to press a button . “ But would believe the general secretary of the CGT, ” employees seem determined to engage in harder motion . “ The challenge is daunting. In a unionized plant which, according to its own figures, that 2.62% of employees, how much she will be ready to suffer pay cuts for a cause that seems already lost, as in 2010 on reform pensions
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