Mobilization of Thursday 2nd October 2: Transport, Health, Education… Who is Calling for the Strikes?

Disappointed after her meeting with Sébastien Lecornu last week, all the unions have called for a new day of strikes and demonstrations on 2nd October

After the citizen movement “Let’s block everything” on the 10th September, then a mobilization on the 18th September to denounce the budgetary orientations of François Bayrou’s government, the unions are once again calling for a day of mobilization on Thursday 2nd October , disappointed by their interview with Sébastien Lecornu last week.

If the extent of the mobilization is currently difficult to assess, the call is already being relayed in various sectors. The point.

National appeal in the public service

Welcoming the “success” of the mobilization of September 18 which brought together between 500,000 and 1 million people in France, according to them, the eight representative organizations in the public service – CGT, FO, CFDT, Unsa, FSU, Solidaires, the CFE-CGC and the FA-FP- “call on staff to mobilize even more strongly”, and “reaffirm the need to build a completely different budget”.

This concerns all employees and agents of cities, departments, regions, public establishments, metropolises…

In transport

On the SNCF side, four unions, namely: CGT-Cheminots, Unsa railway, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots, are calling for a strike in a joint press release. They demand, among other things, “a general increase in salaries and work bonuses”, “a lasting revival of public freight”, the “rehumanization of stations and trains”, “a multi-annual programming law for railway infrastructure”, and join the demands of the inter-union.

In the aviation sector, the main controllers’ union, the SNCTA, for its part maintains its call to strike from October 7 to 9.

In schools

The FSU-SNUipp unions, the leading primary school union, and SNES-FSU, which brings together secondary school teachers, are calling for “a step forward” in the mobilization. The FSU-Snuipp expects 10% of strikers among primary school teachers (nursery and elementary schools). “There is still a lot of anger” even if the planned strike rate “is lower than on September 18”, according to the co-secretary general of the FSU-Snuipp Aurélie Gagné.

Some 17% of teachers followed the movement on September 18, including 17.48% in primary education, according to the Ministry of Education. The FSU-Snuipp had counted on 30% of strikers on the 18th.

In health

The CFDT health and social filed his strike notice with the Minister of Labor and “calls on the staff of health, social and medico-social establishments working in ESPICs and in any company with public service delegation, to mobilize massively on the 2nd October “.

Pharmacists, very mobilized on the 18th September, having in the meantime obtained from the State a reduction in the price reductions imposed on generics, should not be there this time. But, denouncing the “unbearable effort” that is always asked of them, they continue their protest actions, such as the guards’ strike in particular.

Post and telecommunications

The CGT FAPT is also calling for a strike in all companies in the telecoms sector and in the 154 subsidiaries of the La Poste Group.

“The telecommunications sector is going through a critical phase, marked by alarming signals from the four major operators”, denounces the organization, which calls among other things for “the creation of a real public Telecoms service, guaranteeing universal access to a quality, secure, sustainable and equitable network “the establishment of a common salaried work status” and “the launch of a massive public investment plan, financed by a different distribution of wealth”.