Mecachrome. The strike continues in Toulouse
7% salary increase with a minimum of 200 €, this is what the strikers mentioned as legitimate to claim. ” With strong and accelerating inflation, we cannot lose our standard of living, it’s a matter of dignity one of the strikers explains to us.
On the picket line bringing together the morning and afternoon teams, the strikers meet and debate in a general assembly. A very lively discussion, with debates and votes on several points, where many employees express themselves, whether they are unionized or not. In a sector like aeronautical subcontracting, with very little tradition of struggle in recent decades, it is quite rare that strikes are also organized.
Several proposals are made by CGT activists. How to regulate the conflict? Comment it? How to reach the other sites of the group which are not yet in the strike? By a show of hands, the majority decides to renew the movement on May 10 and to popularize the strike by then. To hold, the employees also decide to set up a strike fund, to which we call on our readers to give and share.
” To popularize the strike, we talked about demonstrating this May Day too recalls a trade unionist. Several employees then volunteer to form a procession during the Toulouse demonstration this Sunday.
” Now we have to try to reach the other sites explain several CGT activists in the assembly. ” We continue to approach other unions to build unity in these negotiations. »
” The management has already started to back down, it shows that the strike is having an impact another exclaims.
On the picket, employees of other subcontractors came to show their solidarity. A delegation from AAA, which continues the strike for their wages that same day, came in support.
In the same way, a team from the CGT AHG was present to affirm its solidarity: “ we know what it’s like to go on strike while being isolated, so we come to give you strength, and we know that you will give it to us when we need it too. »
A solidarity that will have to be developed to prepare for the battles to come, at the time of a second Macron five-year term of social attacks, pension reform, inflation and repression.