Demonstrations of November 5: how the unions want to regain control

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DECRYPTION - Employee organizations hope to make their voices heard this Thursday while several of them - CFDT and FO in particular - stayed away from the mobilizations in October.

Each in turn. After high school students and demonstrators demanding more purchasing power on Saturdays in October, it is the turn of the unions to return to the streets this Thursday, November 5. “It will be a great day of convergence with the private sector employees who will be present, the civil servants, the retirees, the young people”, believes Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, who spoke on France 2. This mobilization should allow the unions to regain their place in the social anger.

In this fall of demonstrations and blockages, the centrals are indeed struggling to make themselves heard. If the CGT decided to swell the ranks of the student movements and that of October 17, the CFDT or Force Ouvrière preferred to stay in the background while waiting for this Thursday. “The convergence of struggles has never been the doctrine of the CFDT,” Marylise Léon, general secretary of the first French union, justified herself at the beginning of October. It’s the best way to dilute and lose sight…

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