About 200 people gathered at Place de Verdun in Pau, this Thursday, November 10. They responded to the call to demonstrate from the CGT, which organized a day of interprofessional strike throughout France. The strikers are still demanding wage increases and improvements in working conditions. This is the third day of national interprofessional strike after those of October 18 and 27.
Continue the fight
But after these three days of mobilization, the movement seems to be running out of steam in Béarn. They were nearly 2,000 people in Pau on October 18.
A disappointing, but predictable decline in mobilization for Guy Esquerre, CGT delegate in the building company Cancé, in Nay: “I have colleagues who tell me that they cannot afford to strike for a third day. it weighs on the low wages who are the ones who claim the most._”
Going on strike has a cost but for the strikers, you have to “keep fighting.“Several internal negotiations are taking place, but few have yet been successful. At Safran, in Bordes, some of the employees have been on strike since October 12. They, too, are asking for a raise. Even if he concedes that management has made efforts, the proposals do not suit the unions, explains Sébastien Hourcade, CGT delegate at Safran. “We are told about bonuses, profit-sharing, employee savings, but not salaries. What interests us are the wages because it is something sustainable, which really rewards our work and which allows us to contribute“.