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Nouveau système de contrôle aux frontières : La Commission met en place une usine à gaz ? 2024-04-16 [FO]

Solidarity with Logistics workers in France 2024-04-12 [ETF]

Paris Olympics medals production hit by strikes and protests 2024-04-10 [NBC News]

Union leader Sophie Binet: 'We need to stop the tax-cut competition and instead bet on innovation, training and production quality' 2024-04-07 [Le Monde]

Striking public sector workers pressure French government for better pay 2024-03-19 [Modern Ghana]

Paris Garbage Workers to Suspend Strike Against Pension Reform 2024-03-19 [Bloomberg]

The Struggle for Decent Work in Public Health Care: A CFDT Perspective 2024-03-14 [PSI]

Women's Rights Day: feminist strike and demonstration in Paris on March 8, 2024 2024-03-08 [Sortir a Paris]

Largest ever strike for women's rights 2024-03-08 [RFI]

Union threatens strikes during Olympics. Hospital workers could walk off the job 2024-03-07 [The National Post]

Global Head of Operations (Finance, Administration, and IT) 2024-03-06 [PSI]

Solidarity with the UD Nord CGT, France and its persecuted General Secretary 2024-03-04 [National Workers’ Federations]

Eiffel Tower reopens to visitors after strike by workers who complained of rust 2024-02-27 [Guardian]

Eiffel Tower to reopen Sunday as workers end strike 2024-02-27 [France 24]

Eiffel Tower reopens after six-day closure due to workers’ strike 2024-02-25 [WION]

Eiffel Tower in Paris set to reopen after six-day strike 2024-02-25 [BBC]

Striking workers again close down the Eiffel Tower ahead of its starring role in the Paris Olympics 2024-02-22 [CP24]

Ubisoft workers stage Valentine’s Day strike for fair pay 2024-02-15 [UNI]

Ubisoft workers on strike over salary today 2024-02-15 [GamesIndustry.biz]

Unions call for strikes at Ubisoft studios in France to protest wages: 'We cannot tolerate being treated as expendable to mitigate their bad decisions' 2024-02-14 [PC Gamer]

Employees of the UBISOFT video game will strike in France in favor of fair wages 2024-02-13 [Tech Story]

Sustained union action against the collapse of public education 2024-02-08 [Education International]

Ubisoft video game workers to strike for fair wages 2024-02-07 [UNI]

Port workers strike in Le Havre: How are ferries affected? 2024-02-05 [The Connexion]

Teachers go on strike, piling pressure on embattled education minister 2024-02-02 [France 24]

EDF’s largest union to quit strikes over low turnout 2024-01-31 [Montel]

Taxis, lorry drivers: will other workers join French farmer protests? 2024-01-26 [The Connexion]

Police protest highlights threat of strike action during Paris Olympics 2024-01-19 [France 24]

Strike prevents restart of 915 MW reactor – union 2024-01-11 [Montel]

Strikes shut doors at world-famous French monuments 2024-01-05 [News.com.au]

Striking Workers Have Shut Down the Eiffel Tower in Paris 2023-12-29 [Art News]

Eiffel Tower shut as workers go on strike 2023-12-27 [France24]

Five French Unions Denounce Escalation Of Executions In Iran 2023-12-08 [Iran International]

Major French union claims members targeted over pension protests 2023-12-06 [The Local]

IndustriALL and Safran renew global framework agreement on CSR 2023-12-04 [IndustriALL]

Support for journalists at France 3 in their third week of strike action 2023-11-24 [EFJ]

Undocumented Workers Are Challenging France’s Olympics Juggernaut — and Winning 2023-11-12 [Jacobin]

Childcare workers protest in the streets of Paris For more info 2023-11-07 [EPSU]

Education International stands in solidarity with the education community following the murder of a teacher 2023-10-21 [EI]

‘Preuves’: portraits of undocumented workers seeking regularisation in France 2023-10-20 [Equal Times]

French reporters based abroad warn of their working conditions: “Protect us!” 2023-10-19 [EFJ]

Six months after pension reform, French cabinet woos unions with wage hike talks 2023-10-17 [Euractiv]

Stellantis offers share plan to 87,000 workers in France, Italy 2023-10-15 [Dunya]

October 13 Nationwide Strike – Union Workers Demand Wage Hike 2023-10-15 [NBC]

AESH : mobilisation pour une vraie reconnaissance 2023-10-05 [CGT]

BWI to Heidelberg Materials' French subsidiary: Heed striking workers’ demands 2023-10-05 [BWI]

BWI to Heidelberg’s French subsidiary: Heed striking workers’ demands 2023-10-02 [BWI]

Apple Worker Unions in France Propose Strike Ahead of iPhone 15 Launch 2023-09-21 [Investopedia]

Disclose journalist searched and taken into custody 2023-09-21 [EFJ]

EPSU stands with French unions against the government’s repression 2023-09-08 [EPSU]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-04-1910 After 3 months of steelworkers strike in Chambon, the bosses give in and agree to negotiate with the CGT. [more]

1-04-1944 Following a modest attack on a military convoy near Ascq station, 86 innocent civilians are shot by the German occupier. 60,000 workers go on strike in Lille. [more]

3-04-1919 Start of a strike that lasts until May 26, 8,000 miners fought against falling wages and the employers' refusal to negotiate. Their strike is crushed by the state. [more]

4-04-1871 Collapse of the Commune de Marseille. [more]

4-04-1963 End of strike by miners from Lorraine and Nord-Pas-de-Calais who win a 11% salary increase and a fourth week of paid vacation. [more]

5-04-1910 The retirement age is set at 65. The CGT refers to this as a "swindle" (life expectancy was then less than 49 years). [more]

9-04-1904 800 workers at the Hermitage slate mines in Maine and Loire, return to work after a week on strike after winning a 10 hour working day. [more]

10-04-2006 Following mass protests by workers and young people across France, the regressive CPE law was repealed. Had the law passed, it would have allowed employers to fire any workers below the age of 26 without giving any reason or notice. [more]

17-04-1905 5000 striking workers attempt to free their comrades from Limoges prison. 1,200 soldiers with drawn sabers charge them then shoot at a garden where some take refuge. A porcelain maker named Vardelle is killed, 3 are seriously injured. [more]

19-04-1905 10,000 at Vardelle's funeral in Limoges, "victim of the capitalist regime", "our brother assassinated on April 17 by French bullets". [more]

23-04-1905 Formation of the Unified Socialist Party, French section of the International Workers to "pass social laws likely to immediately improve the lot of the working class". [more]

25-04-1919 In Lormaison, 1,000 button workers on strike for a month reject the latest employers' proposals to divide men and women workers. [more]

26-04-1909 Deputies vote to ban civil servants' right to strike. [more]

30-04-1870 The arrest of "all the individuals who make up the International" is ordered. [more]