Not very visible in the street, but significant in terms of public transport in the Ile-de-France region. The union mobilizations orchestrated, Thursday, November 10, on several fronts had mixed fortunes. The national appeal launched by the CGT to defend “wages, social minima, scholarships and pensions” attracted few people. On the other hand, work stoppages at the RATP severely disrupted traffic on several metro and RER lines, without causing any noticeable crowds – many users having made arrangements to travel otherwise or stay at home.
Since the beginning of the fall, this is the fourth time that the CGT has urged the population to pound the pavement in order to obtain wage increases. Some 30,400 people responded present throughout the territory, according to the Ministry of the Interior. They were “more than 100,000”, objects Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the union. In a press release, the management of the plant insists on the fact that, ” these last months “there is “rarely had so much” movements within companies to demand an improvement in pay slips.
In the capital, they were 2,400 to walk the streets between the Place de la République and the Opéra Garnier, according to the official count. In Marseille, the police headquarters puts forward the figure of 1,500 demonstrators. In Toulouse, the results are identical, according to the CGT. Participation therefore turned out to be low, even if it was twice as high as on October 27, and in very marked decline compared to the two national days of interprofessional action which had taken place on September 29 and October 18 (around 110,000 to 120,000 people in the street, for all of France, according to state services). The Ministry of the Interior specifies that sixteen high schools (including eight in Ile-de-France) were targeted by “blocking operations”Thursday.
You have to “keep the pressure on”
In some cities, the CGT was followed by regional structures of the FSU and Solidaires, as well as by movements representing young people (Voix lycéenne, UNEF, etc.) and by political parties. In Paris, Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the PCF, came to lend his support in a spectacular way – by detonating a railway firecracker with the help of a railway worker.
Force Ouvrière, which had joined the day of action on October 18, passed its turn, this time, the general secretary of the central, Frédéric Souillot, considering that the repetition of these initiatives “leapfrog” are counterproductive and « use[(nt] The troops “.
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