After the battle for pensions, the inter-union is preparing to get back into the ring. She will call Monday for mobilization on Friday, October 13 for wages, gender equality, the defense of the environment, according to union sources this Friday. The leaders of the eight main French unions met as an intersyndicale on Friday morning and worked on a press release which will be published on Monday.
“We held an inter-union meeting this morning, we will make public Monday noon (…) a mobilization date which will be in the middle of October and on the issues of wages, austerity, gender equality and which will also talk about the environment”, declared the secretary general of the CGT, Sophie Binet, during a debate organized within the framework of the University of social movements and solidarity, in Bobigny.
“Fridays for Future”
“We really have to put all our strength into making this date a success,” she added, specifying that the mobilization would take place on a Friday, which echoes the “Fridays for future” mobilizations of environmentalists.
Several union officials have confirmed that the date to be announced is October 13, the inter-union following in the footsteps of the European Trade Union Confederation, which provides for two mobilization dates, October 13 and December 13, according to Yvan Ricordeau, the number two of the CFDT.