Baptiste Morin, edited by Romain Rouillard 06h27, 01 May 2023
If the demonstrations are traditional on May 1st, they will have a special flavor this Monday. Placed under the sign of the fight against the pension reform, these rallies will see the unions move forward hand in hand. A unit observed only twice before May 1.Faced with the highly contested pension reform, the unions are united. On Monday, May 1st, Labor Day and demonstrations, as tradition dictates, the different power plants will parade together in the processions of France. The inter-union has also called to make this May 1st "a day of massive, unitary and popular mobilization", during which it will still be widely discussed the pension reform.
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CGT, CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC and UNSA, all the unions are on the same wavelength and share the common desire to obtain the withdrawal of the law promulgated on April 15. An objective that will require a successful mobilization.
Foreign trade unionists with their French counterparts
The latter will even internationalize since foreign trade unionists will appear in the processions. "There will be about thirty foreign trade unionists with us. Many Europeans, but also from North Africa and maybe even America. There will be trade unionists from Spain, Germany, Tunisia," said Yvan Ricordeau, the national secretary of the CFDT.
This Monday, the unions will be united for only the third time since 1945. The intelligence services are expecting a historic day of mobilization. In Paris, 80 to 100,000 demonstrators are expected, twice as many as on the last day of mobilization.