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Healthcare union calls for strike against mandatory vaccination [Connexion] 2021-08-03
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1-08-1914 The call for mobilization empties the union structures, their mail is now monitored and all their leaflets, posters and announcements are subject to censorship which remains in force until October 13, 1919. [more]
1-08-1944 First call from the underground “Tribune des Cheminots” to bring rail transport to a standstill by all means, including strike action. [more]
2-08-1958 The General Algerian Workers Association (AGTA,) close to the FLN, an association formed within the CGT, is dissolved by the French government. [more]
3-08-1908 Total general strike following the events in Draveil. Across the country, not a single worker goes down a mine, the major construction sites are all at a standstill, many steelworkers, typists and hairdressers express their solidarity. [more]
7-08-1953 Unions call on the civil service for a 24 hour "warning strike" for Friday August 7th. At SNCF, EDF, GDF, RATP, Air France, in mines and arsenals, it was a success that exceeded expectations. [more]
7-08-1953 Unions call on the civil service for a 24 hour "warning strike" for Friday August 7th. At SNCF, EDF, GDF, RATP, Air France, in mines and arsenals, it was a success that exceeded expectations. [more]
10-08-1944 Official anniversary of the insurrectionary strike of railway workers which began today in the Paris region in order to paralyze the rail transport of Hitler troops. [more]
15-08-1944 In Paris, strike in the metro at the behest of the unions and strike by the Parisian police at the call of the National Police Front, which has so far carried out the occupier's orders. [more]
16-08-1940 The Vichy regime banned trade union confederations. The CGT and the CFTC will be dissolved on November 9. [more]
17-08-1919 Important demonstration in Merlebach and rallies to the end of August. From a defensive strike to oppose a loss of purchasing power, the Alsatian miners switch to an offensive strike to make the boss pay. [more]
17-08-1953 Conscription orders were sent to railway workers, postal workers and other public service employees, but failed to dampen the morale of the strikers, whose number reached four million. [more]
18-08-1944 The CGT gives the order for a general strike for liberation, an appeal issued jointly with the CFTC. [more]
19-08-1944 100% general strike. The National Council of Resistance decrees the national insurrection. Barricades are erected in the capital and many German columns, forced to fight, are crushed. [more]
20-08-1830 3 to 4000 locksmiths march through Paris to "present to the masters a petition relating to the reduction of the working day from 12 to 11 hours". [more]
27-08-1840 Several thousand carpenters scoured the working-class districts of Paris to persuade their peers to abolish piecework. [more]
28-08-1844 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels meet for the first time in person, 1844 at Café de la Régence on the Place du Palais in Paris. [more]