Social. The CGT calls for "building the strike" starting September 10

The CGT union hopes that the September 10th movement will be "a successful first step" and calls "for the strike to be built wherever possible," following its national confederal committee meeting held on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a press release. At the inter-union meeting on Friday, the CGT will also propose "calling for a united inter-professional day of strike mobilization and demonstrations in September."

Although several federations (chemicals, commerce and services) and departmental unions of the CGT had called for a demonstration on September 10, the organization's general secretary, Sophie Binet , was cautious on Friday in the face of a "nebulous" movement with a risk of "infiltration by the extreme right."

The Solidaires union called on Wednesday for a strike and support for the "block everything" movement on September 10. For Solidaires, this movement "expresses the multifaceted and growing social anger at the Bayrou government's budgetary announcements." The "desperate attempt by François Bayrou," who will request a vote of confidence in the Assembly on September 8, "only strengthens our resolve to fight the unfair budget proposal." Solidaires, which wants to "build a social movement" in order to "establish a different distribution of wealth," will be "involved in building a balance of power through the inter-union strike on Friday, August 29."

The CFDT announced that it would propose at this meeting "a date for joint mobilization, because the world of work must express itself," while keeping its distance from the September 10 movement, the union's leader , Marylise Léon , told the newspaper Le Monde . "Blocking everything, disobedience, is not the CFDT's method. And the union does not respond to the injunctions of political parties," she added, while the founder of La France insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, called for a general strike on September 10.

FO General Secretary Frédéric Souillot declared that his organization would establish its position within the inter-union while indicating that he was keeping "at a distance" from a movement within which certain groups reject "representative trade union organizations."