Labor and Workers Day this Saturday May 1. Several gatherings took place in Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. They were 450 according to the police, 500 according to the CGT in Niort. Between 600 and 700 in Poitiers. A May Day all the more important since last year, there was no parade because of the confinement.
In Niort, the gathering was at the town hall of the Clou Bouchet district, and the revendications are also good national than local for David Bodin, secretary general of the CGT in Deux-Sèvres. “This May 1, it is very important and it is in the Clou Bouchet district in Niort, precisely because we must contest this reform of unemployment insurance, which has a great impact on the precarious of the district”, he explains. And to continue: “and also against this comprehensive security law which destroys the freedoms of precarious people in the neighborhood. We think that increasing social minima is the first thing that is necessary to reduce drug trafficking in the neighborhood. “ The CGT wants relocate to the neighborhood and again to promote another model of society.
Against government laws
In the rally, we see banners against unemployment insurance reform, placards against the global security law. Intermittents from the show who sing their demands. Hervé is a singer and occupies “Le moulin du roc”. For him, being present is obvious. He recalls that intermittents remain workers with contracts, and claims.
Marie-Claire Madier is the CGT secretary at Niort hospital. She comes defend the medical world, especially psychiatry where she works. “We are missing about thirty full-time equivalents “, she assures. But this is not the only cause: “and on top of that, we are also against unemployment insurance, because precariousness, we know what it is.”
All categories and age groups
All categories of workers, all age groups are there: retirees but also high school students who are afraid of not finding work. Yellow vests are also present, and are found in the struggles. A May 1st struggle therefore, but which also allows us to find ourselves and to get out of the loneliness caused by the health crisis.
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