threats to employment and peace on the coronary heart of processions | EUROtoday

Threats weighing on employment feed on Thursday 1^er May, the mobilization of conventional union processions additionally resonated for fears for peace and stability on the earth. Some 269 parades are deliberate all through France.

In the port metropolis of Dunkirk, a number of hundred folks gathered on the name of the CGT, to protest towards the deletion plan of round 600 positions introduced by ArcelorMittal in its websites within the North and East of France. “Let’s confiscate dividends”,, “Nationalization of ArcelorMittal”may we learn on indicators. Several leftist political leaders, together with the primary secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, the varied left deputy, François Ruffin, the National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, or the President La France Insoumise (LFI) of the Economic Affairs Committee, Aurélie discovered, had been current alongside the demonstrators.

For this 1^er-Mi, mobilization ought to appeal to 100,000 to 150,000 folks in France, based on a police supply. The demonstrators had been 4,000 in Rennes based on the organizers (3,000 based on the prefecture). In Marseille, there have been 15,000 based on the CGT and three,600 based on the prefecture. They had been additionally 1,800 in Brest and a pair of,350 in Bordeaux based on the prefectures, and a pair of,200 in Nancy.

In Metz, the place the occasion began calmly at 10 am, workers of ArcelorMittal Florange, the place 113 jobs should be deleted, had been additionally current. “There are the bowl of those who sell the hospital to pay bursts”proclaimed the demonstrators.

“Military budgets will increase and the social will toast”

In Rennes, Guillaume Naud, 53, social educator and FO member, makes the commentary of “Wages that do not increase and work conditions that deteriorate”. He additionally worries concerning the return of struggle and its penalties: “Military budgets will enhance and the social and college will drink. »»

“We are in a context of concern on the worldwide and financial stage. (…) We get issues solely by wrestle and there are different options than this extremely -liberal system. We should protect our social mannequin »pleads Carole Nejjari, professor of history-geography within the Marseille procession.

“For the past three months, we have heard the question of war, the question of debt, the question of insecurity, the question of immigration, but never social issues”regretted the secretary basic of the CGT, Sophie Binet, on Franceinfo.

For International Workers’ Day, the CGT known as with the FSU, Solidaires and Youth Organizations (Student Union, UNEF, FAGE, USL) to parade “Against the extreme right, for peace, freedoms and social justice”. 100 days after the arrival of the American president, Donald Trump, in energy, these commerce union organizations additionally wish to make at the present time a spotlight “Against the world of the world”based on Thomas Vacheron, CGT supervisor.

The work on 1^er-Mai in query

First metropolis to rejoice 1^er-Mai, Nouméa, the place the parade was prohibited this yr, 100 activists and sympathizers of the USTKE union (Union union of Kanaks and exploited employees, independence) gathered on a seashore. Among them, Paulette Hmuzo, 78, former upkeep agent and activist, decide “The difficult situation today: many people have lost their jobs” Following the riots of May 2024.

In Paris, the demonstration should go away at 2 p.m. from Place d’Italie to Place de la Nation. For this 1^er-Mi, mobilization ought to appeal to 100,000 to 150,000 folks all through France, based on a police supply. This yr once more, a police supply, the presence of UltraGauche militants is deemed very doubtless in Nantes – the place tensions have enamelled the procession of a number of thousand folks -, Lyon or Paris.

This conventional assembly is held when the federal government helps a invoice aimed toward authorizing sure professions to make workers work on 1^er-Mai, the one public vacation and unemployed in France.

“There are people who want to work in the country and when they are on a voluntary basis, with a doubling of salary, they must be able to do it”judged the Minister of Labor on Thursday, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet on RTL. It should be“We leave [la loi] as it is “claimed the secretary basic of the CFDT, Marylise Léon, on TF1/LCI.