These are eight times fewer demonstrators than during the previous national action day, with which FS, FSU and Solidaires had been associated.
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The CGT knew that she was likely to flop. The scenario has become, without surprise, come true. According to the Ministry of the Interior, some 14,000 people beat the pavement on Thursday, October 27, throughout the territory at the call of the union led by Philippe Martinez to request an “increase in wages, pensions and minima social “. The Directorate of the Confederation does not give figures, speaking only of “major mobilization”.
In the capital, they were 1,360, according to the official count. In Marseille, the police prefecture advances the figure of 540 demonstrators. Participation is therefore low and in very clear decline compared to the two national days of interprofessional action, which had taken place on September 29 and October 18 (around 110,000 to 120,000 people in the street, all over the France, depending on the state services).
All the ingredients were gathered so that the crowds prove to be very reduced on Thursday. In full school holidays, the initiative was essentially carried by the CGT, while three other organizations had associated themselves with the previous mobilization (FO, FSU, Solidaires). In a text broadcast on Wednesday, Frédéric Souillot, the number one in FO, had expressed strong reservations on the CGT strategy: “We do not believe in the succession of” jumping-mouton “strike days, synonymous with ineffectiveness and demobilization, “he said.
Questioned, Thursday afternoon, by journalists while he was in the head of the head of the Parisian procession, Mr. Martinez recognized that in any social movement, there could be “ups and downs” . “Our concern is to maintain mobilization,” he justified, to exert pressure on businesses and the government. Without these passages to action at the national level, the struggles in favor of wage increases – as in Totalenergies – would be less effective or would not have seen the light of day, according to M. Martinez.
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questioned about the statements of Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday evening on France 2, the secretary general of the CGT judged them “above ground”. “We see the gap between his life and that of almost all French people,” he continued, insisting on the runaway of energy prices and basic necessities, which puts in difficulty of millions of households. Mr. Martinez also commented on the words of the Head of State on Wednesday evening on the pension reform – with this new hypothesis of a legal starting age set at 64 years (instead of 65 years) and a Increase in the contribution duration to be entitled to a full -rate pension. “It is a dupe market,” denounced the head of the CGT, welcoming that the unions unanimously oppose the design of the President of the Republic.
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