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France Judith Kirton-Darling at FCE-CFDT Congress: Europe's Industrial Future at Stake! [IndustriAll Europe] 15-05-2025

France We renew calls to end police violence after new attacks on journalists at May Day protest [EFJ] 15-05-2025

France Joint union action against austerity and for better pay and working conditions [Education International] 13-05-2025

France Massive SNCF Strike Looms As Negotiations Continue [The Pinnacle Gazette] 03-05-2025

France Unions question 2025 pay scales in Parisian haute couture sector [Fashion Network] 01-05-2025

France Disgruntled French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise [The Guardian] 30-04-2025

France ArcelorMittal job cuts: another blow for European steelworkers - IndustriAll Europe reacts to ArcelorMittal’s brutal job cuts announcement [IndustriAll Europe] 25-04-2025

France / Belgium UNI stands with striking finance workers at Société Générale and BNP Paribas Fortis [UNI Global Union] 08-04-2025

France Strikes in France in April 2025 and how you may be impacted [The Connexion] 01-04-2025

France Historic collective agreement signed for online journalism [EFJ] 20-03-2025


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We renew calls to end police violence after new attacks on journalists at May Day protest 2025-05-15 [EFJ]

Judith Kirton-Darling at FCE-CFDT Congress: Europe's Industrial Future at Stake! 2025-05-15 [IndustriAll Europe]

Russia Shireen Abu Akleh Prize awarded to Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya 2025-05-13 [IFJ]

Joint union action against austerity and for better pay and working conditions 2025-05-13 [Education International]

Ukraine Arman Soldin esplanade inaugurated in Vichy in tribute to French journalist killed in Ukraine 2025-05-13 [EFJ]

Massive SNCF Strike Looms As Negotiations Continue 2025-05-03 [The Pinnacle Gazette]

Unions question 2025 pay scales in Parisian haute couture sector 2025-05-01 [Fashion Network]

Disgruntled French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise 2025-04-30 [The Guardian]

ArcelorMittal job cuts: another blow for European steelworkers - IndustriAll Europe reacts to ArcelorMittal’s brutal job cuts announcement 2025-04-25 [IndustriAll Europe]

Europe ETF Conference on Diversity and Inclusivity – Paris, June 2025 2025-04-09 [ETF]

Belgium UNI stands with striking finance workers at Société Générale and BNP Paribas Fortis 2025-04-08 [UNI Global Union]

Strikes in France in April 2025 and how you may be impacted 2025-04-01 [The Connexion]

Historic collective agreement signed for online journalism 2025-03-20 [EFJ]

France BWI stands in solidarity with its members in Mayotte, an overseas department belonging to France 2025-02-21 [BWI]

Turkey French trade unions respond to fascist attacks in Paris 2025-02-19 [PeoplesDispatch]

Neo-Nazi attack Turkish Migrant Workers Cultural Association in Paris, one young member injured 2025-02-17 [ANF]

Lidl workers start indefinite strike in France 2025-02-10 [UNI Global Union]

Fair pay for women - French workers are still fighting to close the enduring gender pay gap 2025-02-02 [Le Monde Diplomatique]

Port workers start two-day strike 2025-01-30 [The Connexion]

Europe EDF Global Framework Agreement renews with stronger worker protections 2025-01-30 [IndustriALL]

CFDT Demands Revisions To French Pension Reform 2025-01-29 [The Pinnacle Gazette]

Unions renew call for industrial action at France’s biggest box port 2025-01-25 [The Loadstar]

No charges laid against journalist Ariane Lavrilleux 2025-01-21 [EFJ]

STJV union calls for extended strike at Don't Nod with layoffs looming 2025-01-14 [Game Developer]

Joint union action to acknowledge education support staff 2025-01-14 [Education International]

STJV union calls on Don't Nod workers to protest again due to management's unwillingness to communicate 2025-01-13 [Gagadget]

Global World journalists commemorate 10th anniversary of Charlie Hebdo’s massacre 2025-01-08 [EFJ]

EFJ calls for protection of journalist Philippe Miller’s sources 2024-12-24 [EFJ]

The EFJ condemns the summoning of Disclose journalist Ariane Lavrilleux for possible indictment 2024-12-06 [EFJ]

France EPSU shares solidarity as French and Italian workers mobilise 2024-12-02 [EPSU]

BWI to Heidelberg Materials-France: Stop endangering workers' safety 2024-12-02 [BWI]

The great Brittany sardine strike of 1924, a milestone for working women 2024-11-24 [RFI]

Hennessy workers strike as France's Macron urges Xi to drop China cognac tarriffs 2024-11-21 [Reuters]

Unions to strike indefinitely in December over ‘killing’ of Fret SNCF 2024-11-11 [RailTech]

Rail workers to strike in December: Major disruption expected 2024-11-10 [The Connexion]

Rail Unions Threaten to Strike Over Holiday Travel Disruptions and Freight Policies 2024-11-10 [Railway Supply]

The WFTU supports the struggle of chemical workers in France 2024-11-07 [WFTU]

Rail unions call for strike on 21 November, and it might only be the beginning 2024-11-06 [Rail Freight]

Worrying state of play for French professionals 2024-11-03 [Eurocadres]

Striking Ubisoft workers say “game over” to company’s refusal to negotiate 2024-10-21 [UNI Global Union]

Gaming Union Condemns Don’t Nod Layoff Plan Involving Laying Off 69 Employees 2024-10-20 [mxdwn]

'We will not pay for our bosses mistakes' — French union denounces Don't Nod's plan that could impact up to 69 workers 2024-10-19 [PC Gamer]

‘A real blow is being prepared’ for public services in France says trade union federation Force Ouvrière 2024-10-18 [The News Line]

Italy Ubisoft French Workers Strike Over Return To Office Order Spreads To Italy 2024-10-18 [Deadline]

nion calls for Don't Nod strike following proposed layoffs 2024-10-18 [PC Games Insider]

Leadership at Don’t Nod are 'creating an atmosphere of extreme violence” with planned layoffs, says French game workers union 2024-10-17 [Rock Paper Shotgun]

Union urges Don't Nod workers to strike over layoffs and 'reorganisation plan' 2024-10-17 [Games Industry Biz]

'Austerity and the impoverishment of public services in the territories are the fuel of the far right' 2024-10-17 [PSI]

Unions denounce the intimidation of several journalists at the Mazan high-profile rape trial 2024-10-17 [EFJ]

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This month in labour history


1-05-1891 The Fusillade de Fourmies took place during the first French celebration of International Workers' Day when troops fired on peaceful strikers, killing 9 including Marie Blondeau and wounding 35. [more]

5-05-1525 Bloody meeting at the Wittringerhof between peasants and the army of the Duke of Lorraine marching towards Dieuze. Jean de Braubach, captain of Sarreguemines is taken prisoner, and the peasants manage to join the Alsatian insurgent peasants in Herbitzheim. [more]

8-05-1862 Seven typographical workers, including Debock, are imprisoned and brought before the 6th Correctional Chamber for having struck against the presence of women workers at the Dupont printing works. [more]

9-05-2001 Ban on night work by women in industry lifted. [more]

11-05-1917 Women workers launch 33 strikes in Paris in the clothing-leather-textile sector between May 11 and 28 for wage improvements and the 'English work week'. [more]

11-05-1936 A protest strike against the dismissals at Bréguet broke out in Le Havre; the 600 workers occupy the factory and obtain satisfaction [more]

13-05-1968 Workers join students in a million-strong march through Paris. [more]

13-05-1968 10 million workers began a general strike. [more]

13-05-1918 10,000 Renault Billancourt workers sit idly at work, starting the movement of Parisian steelworkers which will last until the 18th calling for the end of the war. [more]

14-05-1968 Workers at the Sud Aviation plant near Nantes begin a sit-down strike, becoming some of the first workers to join student protests. [more]

14-05-1918 War factories in the Saint-Denis region are struck. Workers call for an end to the war. [more]

14-05-1917 In the middle of the war, the "midinettes" of the garment industry began a 14 day strike and won a work week of 5 and a half days, an improvement in wages and the draft of what will become a collective agreement. [more]

15-05-1918 The workers of the Seine war factories strike until the 18th. Their demand: the end of the war. [more]

15-05-1895 In Champagnac-les-Mines, created in 1894, the miners' union launched a 3 months-long strike for the 8-hour day and a better sharing of profits. [more]

16-05-1968 The French general strike gathers pace as around fifty factories are occupied by their workers. [more]

17-05-1968 Thousands of students in Paris marched for a second day in a row from the Sorbonne University to the Renault plant occupied by its workers to support them. [more]

18-05-1931 Start of a general strike in the textile industry after the announcement of a drop in wages. 112,000 strikers in Roubaix and 43,000 in Tourcoing. The CGTU does not call for a return to work until July 29. [more]

18-05-1979 In Longwy in Lorraine, clashes with the police took place to protest against the jamming of the pirate radio organized by the CGT, "Lorraine heart of steel". [more]

20-05-1525 4,000 insurgent peasants die at the Battle of Scherwiller [more]

21-05-1968 Workers and students formed a joint Workers-Students Action Committee to support an ongoing strike and occupation at Paris's Citroen auto plant. [more]

21-05-1871 Versailles troops retake Paris at the end of "Bloody Week" on the 28th. Thousands of dead, tens of thousands of arrests. Many activists, hunted down by the police, seek refuge in the provinces or abroad. [more]

22-05-1968 Footballers in Paris occupied the French Football Association headquarters declaring "Football to the Footballers." They issued a statement demanding the immediate dismissal of football "profiteers" and for football without profits. [more]

22-05-1846 Demonstration by garment workers in Elbeuf to demand the destruction of a the machines that are replacing them. [more]

24-05-1917 Striking bank workers demonstrate on the Parisian Les Grands Boulevards towards the National Assembly where they are dispersed by the police. [more]

25-05-1968 Negotiations start between the government, employers and unions, leading later to agreements signed at the Ministry of Social Affairs. [more]

25-05-1917 1000 bank strikers (almost all women) gather in front of Crédit Lyonnais. The police dispersed them. Later 2000 picket in front of the Comptoir d'Escompte then walk towards Banque Rothschild, Bourse du Travail and the Grands Boulevards, singing. [more]

25-05-1864 Napoleon III legalizes coalitions of workers and ends the criminalisation of strikes. [more]

26-05-1941 Beginning of the strike by miners in the Nord / Pas-de-Calais region, one of the first acts of collective resistance to the Nazi occupation. [more]

27-05-1941 Nord Pas de Calais. The strike escalates. The sentencing of miners to deportation on 28 May inflamed the region: 100,000 miners, or 80% of the workforce, defied German military authority and struck. [more]

27-05-1968 Signature of the Grenelle Agreements providing for 25% increase in minimum wage, a 10% general increase and a reduction of working time. These concessions do not satisfy the workers' and the strike continues. [more]

28-05-1936 32,000 workers occupied the Renault plant in Paris. 100,000 more workers soon occupied every major engineering factory around the city. A strike wave swept the country, involving 2 million workers in 12,000 strikes and occupations. [more]

29-05-1917 Shoe and cardboard box workers strike and demonstrate in Paris. Pacifist slogans are sung and the red flag appears. [more]

30-05-1917 At 07:00 a thousand women at the Salmson factory in Issy strike and then demonstrate in front of other factories. At 15:30 3,500 strikers are at the Porte de Versailles and cross Paris demanding the end of the war. [more]

30-05-1968 Deadlocked, the social crisis of May 68 leads to a political crisis, De Gaulle announces the dissolution of the National Assembly. [more]

31-05-1899 In Creusot, birth of the S.O.M.", the Union of Metallurgical Workers and Allied Workers. 6000 members join the same day. [more]