“Economic conditions are tightening significantly,” recognized Labor Minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet in the JDD.
Calls for strikes in several sectors
It reports “an acceleration in the number of collective procedures opened by companies in difficulty. With, in addition, structural transformations in the automobile or mass distribution sectors”, a few days after the announcements by Michelin of the closure in 2026 of its factories in Vannes and Cholet (1,254 jobs) and by Auchan of a draft plan social threat threatening 2,389 jobs in France.
In addition to farmers, unions in several sectors have launched calls for strikes and mobilization for the coming weeks to protest against social plans and against the consequences of a draft budget – still under discussion in Parliament – which provides for 60 billion euros of budgetary effort to redress public accounts in the red.
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After the vote by the deputies for an increase in taxation on air transport, the national union of airline pilots (SNPL) indicated yesterday calling on all employees in the airline sector to stop work and demonstrate Thursday in front of the Assembly national.
The unions of the railway company SNCF are calling on them to stop work from Wednesday, November 20, 7:00 p.m. to Friday, November 22, 8:00 a.m., and also launched an indefinite strike notice on Saturday from Wednesday, December 11, 7:00 p.m. (renewable for 24-hour periods), a social movement that could disrupt service during the Christmas holidays.
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Representatives of railway workers are calling for a moratorium on the dismantling of Fret SNCF, the division dedicated to rail freight, and are protesting against the terms of opening regional lines to competition.
“Mobilizations for employment”
In the Civil Service also, two of the main unions, FO and the CGT, called for a “strike” on Thursday after the failure of a meeting with Minister Guillaume Kasbarian, raising the possibility of mobilizations in early December.
Four unions representing medical biologists also called on Thursday for Health Insurance to reopen negotiations on their rates, recently revised downwards, otherwise threatening a “shutdown”, i.e. the closure of medical analysis laboratories from 23 to December 31 inclusive.
The CGT called for “mobilizations for employment in all regions” on December 12.
For its general secretary Sophie Binet, in La Tribune Dimanche, in industry alone, “we are at the start of a violent industrial bloodletting”. “It is estimated that more than 150,000 jobs will disappear, probably more”, according to Ms Binet who predicts a “domino effect” on the subcontractors of “major contractors”.
