Thousands of people demonstrated, this Thursday, everywhere in France, at the call of the CGT in particular, for the employment and the defense of the public services In Paris, the procession started around 2:30 p.m. from the place of the Republic to reach the Place de la Nation.
The Parisian demonstration, strong of 20,000 demonstrators according to the CGT, 4,800 for the police headquarters, rocked around 2:30 p.m. from Place de la République in the direction of that of the Nation, behind a banner proclaiming "jobs, salaries, working time, pensions… Let's relaunch the social ”.
In the procession, all deplore degraded working conditions, especially since the Covid-19 crisis.
“We're here to remind everyone that nothing has changed in the hospital.
And we will continue to contain when there are pandemics because we still do not have enough beds or staff.
Our salaries are not up to what they should be so our colleagues are leaving, they are fed up, ”regrets Frédéric, nursing assistant at APHP and union member at Sud-Santé.
Employees of education, artists but also employees of the tourism sector were present, like Bruno, graphic designer, or Mokles: "I've been without a salary for eleven months, my wife is a civil servant and maintains the minimum. we'll say.
I am in the process of exhausting my rights at Pôle Emploi, two more months and I will have nothing.
So it's dramatic, ”says this business travel manager.
The parade arrived shortly after 4:00 p.m. at Place de la Nation, after taking place in peace.
The union order service had been expanded, bringing together 200 people, two to three times more than usual for a national demonstration according to the CGT.