Sophie Binet re-elected as CGT stands up to corporate intimidation

This month in labour history

1-06-1975 100 sex workers occupied the church of Saint Nizier, Lyon, refusing to leave unless their convictions for soliciting were rescinded. [more]

1-06-1917 88 strikes were underway in clothing, ammunition and pharmaceuticals. Women were more and more dissatisfied with their treatment during the war and are fighting for the ‘English week’ and better living conditions. [more]

2-06-1975 More than 100 women sex workers occupy the Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon to to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions and police harassment. The occupation ended on 10 June 1975, when the women were removed by the police. [more]

2-06-1944 The C.G.T. calls on its activists to place themselves resolutely "at the head of the masses for the launching and the conduct of the general strike". The strike is to support the D-Day invasion. [more]

2-06-1919 150,000 metal workers and 20,000 public transport workers strike. The strike is a protest over a wage freeze in effect since the start of the war in 1914, despite high inflation. The strikers also demand work for returned soldiers. [more]

2-06-1908 2 dead and 9 injured among workers in the Vigneux-sur-Seine sand pits, on strike for a month when the gendarmes used their weapons against the strike committee installed at the Hôtel-restaurant du Progrès. [more]

4-06-1908 A crowd of 15,000 strikers from the Paris region escorts the remains of Pierre Le Foll, killed at Villeneuve St. Georges, to the cemetery of Villeneuve le Roi. Anger is expressed throughout the procession. [more]

6-06-1919 In Saint-Denis, carrying the red flag, soldiers join workers' demonstrations. [more]

6-06-1968 Workers largely returned to work following the May 68 uprising and mass strike, after winning big pay increases and reforms. [more]

9-06-1845 Beginning of a wage strike by carpenters in Paris. For the first time, soldiers are made available to employers to break the strike. [more]

10-06-1941 End of the miners' strike in the Nord / Pas-de-Calais region, one of the first acts of collective resistance to the Nazi occupation. [more]

12-06-1917 Women workers at the Johnson de La Courneuve factory begin a strike. They are joined later in the day by the male workers. [more]

13-06-1941 1st convoy of miners from Nord Pas-de-Calais sent to concentration camps in retaliation for their strike. More than 1,400 had already been arrested, shot, decapitated by the guillotine or died under torture in prisons. [more]

14-06-2000 Signing by employers, the CFDT and the CFTC of a new unemployment insurance agreement providing for the implementation of the PARE (plan to help return to work). Denounced by FO, the CGT and the CGC, it came into force on January 1, 2001. [more]

21-06-1991 After a union campaign sexual harassment at work becomes an offence, punishable by imprisonment. [more]

23-06-1848 Out of 120,000 workers made redundant by the National Workshops, 20,000 take to the streets. They form up to 400 barricades. [more]

23-06-1848 4 days of deadly fighting begin in the working-class districts of Paris. Rifles, bayonets, cannons, incendiary bombs ... 11,662 arrests, up to 10,000 dead. The workers' movement is beheaded. The 3rd Republic was born. [more]

26-06-1910 Tens of thousands of people escort the body of cabinet maker Henri Cler, killed by a police officer during a strike, from Fbg St-Antoine to the Pantin cemetery. On the way back cavalry charge with sabres, wounding 100’s. [more]

29-06-1894 Establishment of a pension system and health insurance funds for miners. [more]