As September 10 approaches, it is difficult to know if the pressure cooker of social anger will make Pschitt. “It will be an explosive social school year”, Ensures with Aplomb Julien Troccaz, Federal Secretary Sud Rail. If despite their reluctance, other organizations (CGT, CFE-CGC, FO) see the movement that opposes Bayrou’s budgetary plan with a good eye, the southern antenna is for the moment the only organization to be clear to blocking, after the left parties, in the wake of rebellious France, have formulated their support. “We have made a democratic consultation in our South Rail antennas, we call a firm strike in the rail”he said.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon even went further by calling for “General strike”. “A strike has not been decreed from a column or a meeting, it’s more complicated than that”, is annoyed the railway worker for whom this rebellious leader’s call is completely like Du “Social contempt”. “This momentum is a good thing for social justice, but creating a strike is discussed with employees, and it takes time”also delays Denis Gravouil, member of the Confederate Bureau of the CGT, who recalls that it is not with “A political movement that can be built an effectively strike”. “LFI networks are not (unlike unions) solidly anchored in companies”, he insists.
Friday morning, before the speech of Mélenchon, the secretary general of the CGT Sophie Binet was also prudent as to the success of a movement as spontaneous as that announced on September 10. “The modes of action are vague”she pointed out on France Inter, saying her union “Very vigilant on the attempts to core and instrumentalization of the extreme right which in certain places, try to develop anti-union speeches and to redirect anger” against “Immigrants and foreigners”.
Like his CGT counterpart, Frédéric Souillot, Secretary General of Force Ouvrière (FO) is skeptical about the chances of success. “Unlike South, we do not call to join the call to block everything on September 10 […] There is everything and its opposite in the watchwords. We calculated that they had accumulated on their different platforms barely 60,000 likes when our petition [de l’intersyndicale contre le budget Bayrou, ndlr] is 350,000 signatures ”he said in La Tribune on Sunday.
“For the moment we do not call to block, we will wait for the inter-union consultations (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA and Solidaires) scheduled for September 1”, Affirm in the same line Stanislas Gaudon, president of the Federation of Public Services at the CFE-CGC, the union of executives. If he sees the call launched by Jean-Luc Mélenchon as a “Political recovery”, It remains airtight: “This kind of strategy has always existed, fortunately, it is not our compass”. The CFDT, it should give a first position this Tuesday, August 26, day of its return to the Paris Labor Stock Exchange.
Less than on September 10, the social partners therefore rely on other mobilizations, to them, within the presentation of the finance bill for 2026. The Minister responsible for Labor Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet opens elsewhere, in parallel, a series of consultations this Monday, August 25, the day when François Bayrou could specify some of his proposals made on July 15. Return to the announced removal of two holidays? «Ces two daysit is the tree that hides the forest from the deletions of posts of civil servantsof the unemployment reform or the precariousness of retirees ”argues Julien Troccaz from Sud Rail, who, like all the social partners consulted by Libérationn’attend “No progress” of this back -to -school press conference. “No one is fooled”continues Stanislas Gaudon (CFE-CGC). “We know the strategy of getting out of measurements to remove one or two and calm the spirits”also said Denis Gravouil, at the CGT. If the call for blocking in mid-September makes noise, “This date will not be the only meeting at the start of the school year, he announces. The inter -union will protest against this austerity policy ”.