Unlike the day of October 18, FO, Solidaires and the FSU will not be there. The CGT hopes that these organizations will join it for another day of mobilization already announced for November 10.
Le Monde with AFP
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) does not want to release the pressure. Despite the mixed success of the mobilization of October 18, she organizes, Thursday, October 27, a new day of action in favor of wages. Due to the holidays and lack of participation of the other unions, the demonstration promises to be little mobilizing.
“We wanted there to be no total break during the holidays, but it will be less important than on October 18 [October]”, recognizes the secretary with the France-Presse (AFP) agency (AFP) Confederal Céline Verzeletti.
At the height of the strike in refineries and its consequences on motorists, the mobilization of October 18 had gathered 107,000 demonstrators throughout France according to the police (300,000 according to the union), with strikes in the nuclear and transport.
If the CGT said it was “quite satisfied” with this day, this mobilization had not led to an enlargement of social movements as the organizers hoped. Since then, the strike has only affected two totalnergies sites, a salary agreement has been reached in EDF. No disturbance is expected in transport Thursday.
The CGT claims an increase in the minimum wage, an indexing of all wages on inflation and a revaluation of the civil servant index point, specifies Céline Verzeletti.
“We want to maintain pressure, allow employees who fight to end up in a point of demonstration. In the boxes where there has been mobilization, the wage increases have been more important,” said the union official.
The CGT hopes to reach other organizations in December 2>
Unlike the day of October 18, FO, Solidaires and the FSU will not be there. The CGT hopes that these organizations will join her for another day of mobilization already announced for November 10. The CFDT, the first union in France, had not participated in the mobilization of October 18.
The Parisian demonstration will leave at 2 p.m. from Montparnasse to the headquarters of Medef near the Military Ecole Métro station. Gatherings are also planned in the provinces.