“Against austerity, for wages and gender equality.” More than four months after the last day of mobilization against pension reform, the inter-union is back on track next Friday, October 13, with a new day of strikes and demonstrations, under new slogans. The latter being dominated by the salary question, even though the mobilization will take place three days before the social conference on low wages promised by Emmanuel Macron.
“There is enormous anger in the country, because work allows less and less to live and therefore this is what we are going to denounce on October 13. We are going to strike and demonstrate to demand wage increases,” said CGT general secretary Sophie Binet on Wednesday October 4 on Franceinfo, also calling for “wage inequalities between women and men to finally disappear.” The fight for a “socially just ecological transition” is also cited among the slogans of the mobilization.
For her part, the boss of the CFDT, Marylise Léon, assured Le Monde at the end of August that this day of strike and demonstrations – which is also part of a European framework – was in no way revenge against the executive after the lost fight against pension reform. “We are as combative as ever and determined to obtain improvements for workers’ rights, but we have no revenge to take on the government,” she said. In parallel with the demonstrations planned in dozens of cities, strikes could affect a number of sectors. SNCF, air transport, schools, doctors… Le Figaro takes stock of the disruptions to be expected.
On the rail, if the details of the disruptions at the SNCF are not expected until Wednesday evening – the striking railway workers must make themselves known 48 hours before – cancellations and delays are to be expected. Three of the main railway union organizations – the CGT-Cheminots, Sud-Rail and the CFDT-Cheminots – called, in a united leaflet, “all railway workers to go on strike and demonstrate on October 13” , demanding wage increases and improved working conditions. Unsa-Ferroviaire subsequently joined this call.
In Île-de-France, there could also be traffic disruptions at the RATP. As for the SNCF, they will be communicated on Wednesday evening. The CGT-RATP has in fact called on agents to mobilize next Friday, when the UNSA-RATP challenged the boss of the management Jean Castex in a recent press release, evoking the mobilization of October 13 without clearly specifying whether it called for it. participate.
If you take a plane on October 13, also pay attention to possible flight cancellations. The USAC-CGT air traffic controllers union has filed a strike notice, but not the SNCTA (National Union of Air Traffic Controllers), the main union organization in the profession.
On the road, the Federal Road Union of the FGTE-CFDT union invites road hauliers to “support this demonstration”. Actions, such as snail-like operations, cannot therefore be ruled out.
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Beyond transport, strikes could affect other sectors. Like National Education, where teachers could go on strike. The call for mobilization was in any case relayed, among others, by the FSU-SNUipp, the leading union in nursery and elementary schools, and by the SNES-FSU, the majority union in middle and high schools. We will know more about the extent of the mobilization on Wednesday. School teachers are required to declare themselves strikers 48 hours before the start of the strike. However, this obligation does not concern middle and high school teachers.
Higher education could also be affected by the mobilization, since the inter-union of higher education and research published a press release calling on “staff and students to join massively in the various actions, rallies, demonstrations, walkouts and strikes organized during the European mobilization day of October 13.
Apart from teachers, all public sector professions are affected by this day of strike. The public service unions have in fact joined this call for mobilization, publishing a joint press release to this effect, deeming it “urgent that general measures be taken to increase the remuneration of all”. Thus, school meals, after-school activities and nurseries could be disrupted, as could town halls or tax centers.
The strikes of October 13 will also affect health. The inter-union of the health and medico-social sectors (CGT Santé, FO Santé, SUD Santé Sociaux and UNSA Santé
For their part, the unions representing private doctors chose the same date as the inter-union, namely October 13, to call a strike, for the most part in an “unlimited” manner, demanding in particular an increase in the price of consultations. Their strike, which concerns both general practitioners and specialists, could therefore be extended after Friday.