May 1: despite the processions, the executive foresees a lull

2023-05-01T18:44:54.593Z

ANALYSIS - The CFDT is ready to discuss the government's social agenda. Announced as perilous, the May Day weekend ended for the executive with the prospect of a lull on the union front. Despite the persistence of the social conflict against the pension reform and major incidents and degradations on the sidelines of the processions of Paris, Lyon and Nantes, several clearings came to clear the horizon of the government. With 782,000 demonstrators across France accordi

Announced as perilous, the May Day weekend ended for the executive with the prospect of a lull on the union front.

Despite the persistence of the social conflict against the pension reform and major incidents and degradations on the sidelines of the processions of Paris, Lyon and Nantes, several clearings came to clear the horizon of the government.

With 782,000 demonstrators across France according to the Ministry of the Interior (2.3 million according to the CGT), the demonstration did not take on the contours of the

"tidal wave"

previously announced by the unions.

The displayed unity, unprecedented for fourteen years, allowed the organizers to mobilize more than during previous Labor Days.

Without managing to do better than March 7 and 23, days of the most important demonstrations against the pension reform.

If the new secretary general of the CGT, Sophie Binet, welcomed

“one of the strongest”

May 1

“of the social movement”

, no new date for mobilization…

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