After multiple uses of Article 49.3 of the Constitution, the government achieved its goal: the Labor Law was forcibly adopted.
The long summer holidays also provided an opportunity to somewhat forget the social protest movement associated with this labor code reform project.
The challenge of the September 15th strike was to reignite mobilization: the result was very mixed, even though the traditional number dispute between organizers and the police, 400,000 for the former, 170,000 for the latter, does not allow for an objective opinion.
In any case, in Paris, the “block blocs” had a field day under the watchful eyes of the CGT members, quite happy to let them do the dirty work.
In Nice, around 700 (estimate) demonstrators marched without any incidents or tension to report.
But, surprise…the protesting unionists had chosen the “artistic” route: tram and bus cars circulated with graffiti filled with slogans whose content one can easily imagine.
“We wanted to protest without penalizing users by organizing another day of strikes,” explained the spokesperson for the union confederation, quite pleased with this achievement.
Indeed, they have every reason to be…
We are waiting for the next day of strikes to see if the idea box will have produced new artistic expressions.
