Public service, energy, public transport, road transport, agri-food, commerce... Many sectors, both public and private, have called for a strike for Tuesday, in France, in order to demand an increase in wages and stopping the requisitioning of strikers in refineries.
New interprofessional mobilization in France. In a context made inflammable by the strike in the refineries, and a few days before going on vacation, public and private employees are called on Tuesday, October 18, to stop work and demonstrate, for a rise in wages and against the requisitions of strikers.
Anxious to resolve the French fuel supply difficulties "as quickly as possible", Emmanuel Macron called a meeting at the Élysée on Monday afternoon. "The President of the Republic appealed to everyone's spirit of responsibility and highlighted the unbearable consequences for those who suffer daily from this galley," said a participant in this meeting, on condition of anonymity.
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Many sectors have filed strike calls for Tuesday: public service, energy, public transport, road, agri-food, trade, etc. Some could move towards renewable strikes, like the railway workers who intend to take advantage of the window open until the All Saints holidays, Friday evening, to negotiate wage increases.
Nearly 150 gatherings in France
In the oil industry, where the conflict started at the end of September, the strike should continue on Tuesday at TotalEnergies, in the refining and/or fuel depot teams.
Nearly 150 assembly points are planned in France, according to the CGT, which organizes this day with the FO, Solidaires and FSU unions and the youth organizations Fidl, MNL, Unef and High School Life.
First trade union in France, the CFDT has, on the other hand, decided to stay away from the movement, not believing in the effectiveness of large interprofessional demonstrations to obtain wage increases in companies.
In Paris, the demonstration will start at 2 p.m. from Place d'Italie, heading towards Place Vauban. Another procession, to protest against the reform of vocational high schools, will march from the Saint-François-Xavier metro to the Sèvres-Babylone metro.
Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the Assembly, will be present among the demonstrators, 48 hours after the "March for expensive living" organized by the left-wing parties on Sunday in Paris. The leader of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is expected at the assembly of railway workers to be held at 11 a.m. at Gare de Lyon.
The police anticipate 15,000 and 2,000 people respectively for the two Parisian demonstrations, and the authorities expect to see the "ultrayellow" and "ultraleft" trying to form a procession in front of the union square.
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