Union organizations are calling for beating the pavement on Thursday-May, labor day. According to the CGT, some 260 rallies are planned throughout France, as in Paris, Bordeaux, Strasbourg or Dunkirk. Follow our direct.
For wages, for the repeal of the pension reform, or even “against the trumping of the world”: union organizations call to beat the pavement Thursday for the May 1, but the mobilization is held without a wide unit. Follow our direct.
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For International Workers’ Day, the CGT has identified some 260 rallies in France. The Montreuil power station called with the FSU, solidarity and youth organizations (student union, UNEF, FAGE, USL) to parade “against the extreme right, for peace, freedoms and social justice”.
If – like last year – the intersyndicale will not be united for the occasion, the number one of FODÉRIC SOUILLOT will parade alongside its counterparts, including the leader of the CGT Sophie BINET, in the Parisian procession.
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The Parisian demonstration will leave at 2 p.m.
In Paris, the demonstration must leave at 2 p.m. from Place d’Italie to Place de la Nation. Other processions will start in the morning, such as Marseille and Lille at 10:30 am. This will also be the case at 10 a.m. in Bordeaux, Strasbourg or Dunkirk, where left-wing officials, such as Marine Tondelier (Ecologists), François Ruffin (ex-LFI) or Boris Vallaud (PS) are expected to protest against the plan of the steel industry arcelormittal providing for the abolition of around 600 positions.
The number one of the CFDT Marylise Léon and his counterpart from Unsa Laurent Escure find themselves in the morning in the center of Paris for a gathering and a round table on work.
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A day against the world of the world
A hundred days after Donald Trump’s arrival in power, the CGT, the FSU and Solidaires also want to make this day a highlight “against the world of the world and the reactionary international that develops everywhere,” Thomas Vacheron, CGT manager, told AFP.
International unions (American, Belgian, Argentinian, in particular) were invited to the Parisian parade. “This unitary and international approach is a small step” to combat policies that threaten workers (increase in customs duties or massive expulsions of clandestine workers), according to Murielle Guilbert (Solidaires).
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The presence of radical activists deemed very likely
This year again, a police source, the presence of ultra-left activists is deemed very likely in Paris, Nantes or Lyon, among others. Similarly, in the capital where just over 2,000 members of the police are expected, the government’s decision to dissolve the anti -fascist group “the young guard” and the “Palestine Emergency” collective could reach out the climate.
“We won’t tolerate anything,” said Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Wednesday. In the capital, “the procession will take place normally and calm, but we must avoid going into contact with radical elements, especially if they commit abuses since we will intervene with great firmness,” warned the prefect of Paris Thursday morning, Laurent Nunez, interviewed on BFMTV who added to fear overflows.
“We must put into perspective” this presence of “black blocks” in the face of “hundreds of thousands of demonstrators and demonstrators” expected, nuanced Sophie Binet on Wednesday, denouncing “unfortunately classic strategies (…) to discredit social mobilization”.
In 2023, the eight main unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, Solidaires, FSU) had paraded together against pension reform, unheard of for almost 15 years, with very strong key mobilization (between 800,000, according to the authorities and 2.3 million, according to the CGT).
Last year, the figures returned in more ordinary forks: between 121,000 people, according to the authorities, and 210,000, according to the CGT; And Thursday, mobilization should significantly attract the same number of demonstrators (100,000 to 150,000 of police source).
This traditional meeting is held when the unions fear that the government will support law proposals aimed at authorizing certain professions to make employees work on the 1st May -the only holiday and non -working day in France -, a day acquired “in the blood and in the tears of the workers”, recalls Sophie Binet.
The union of “yellow vests” also called its sympathizers to carry out a secret operation on various gathering points. “We will show power partners what a real union is,” they wrote in a call posted on the social network X.
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