more than 2,000 people demonstrate at the call of national unions
Several unions and youth organizations have called to strike and demonstrate, this Tuesday, October 5, in Lyon as throughout France, for salary increases in particular.
Employees and the unemployed are called upon to strike and demonstrate, this Tuesday, October 5 in Lyon as in all of France, to demand “urgent responses”, particularly on the issue of salaries, and put social issues back at the heart of the debate, just over six months before the presidential election.
Little disruption in Lyon
Some 200 assembly points are planned throughout France, according to Céline Verzeletti, Confederal Secretary of the CGT. “This is a first indication which is positive for us”, she congratulated herself. However, the strike promises to be little followed in transport, the SNCF foresees a traffic “Ordinary” for TGVs, and “almost normal” for TER, particularly in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. In Lyon, public transport traffic did not seem to be undergoing major disruptions on Tuesday morning, the TCL not mentioning significant impacts on metro and tram traffic. In Lyon, the event is organized from the Manufacture des Tabacs to Place Bellecour. The police mentioned 2,300 demonstrators, who left around noon, without noting any particular outbursts.
For a general increase
These are the CGT, FO, Solidaires, FSU unions, as well as the youth organizations Fidl, MNL, Unef and UNL, who called for this inter-professional day of strike and demonstration on August 30. They say in a joint text Monday “the urgency of upgrading the grids
of classifications of professional branches, to increase the minimum wage, the civil service index point, pensions, social minimums and study grants “. In Paris, where negotiations with the prefecture were difficult, the procession left from Place de la République at 2:00 p.m. in the direction of Opera. “Several thousand people are expected”, according to a police source.
Officials on the front line?
Civil servants must also swell the ranks of the demonstrators. Meeting at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, five of the nine unions representing the public service focused on the issue of wages during a press conference on Monday. “We cannot afford to take another six months to reflect, there is a salary emergency in the public service and in the world of work”, judged Gaëlle Martinez, the general delegate of Solidaires. “There has been an absence of social dialogue since the start of this five-year term, which prevents having prospects in the public service”, said Fabien Golfier, secretary general of the FA-FP, during a press conference at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil.