Dear friends,
The French government launched a lightning war against the railwaymen.
It decided to pass by order (without debate or vote in parliament) a PRIVATIZATION project of the SNCF (the national railway company) and to remove the railway status, conquered by the workers' struggles of the past.
The privatization of SNCF, the last 100% public company in France and one of the last 100% public railway company in Europe with the Portuguese CP, would be a disaster for railway workers and the French population.
This is part of the requirements of the "4th railway package" of the European Union which obliges the states of the Union to privatize to deliver the public service to the financial monopolies.
After a day of strikes and demonstrations in Paris, where more than 30000 railway workers marched (photos in PJ), the railway workers will respond with a massive counteroffensive, with 36 days of strikes and demonstrations throughout the country, from April 03 until the month of June! See the calendar attached.
It is a long and hard movement that is coming, a movement in which the CGT Syndicate of the Railroad Workers of Versailles will fully engage and which can become the catalyst for a more global movement against the Macron government's policy of social breakage. !
To organize international solidarity, we propose to popularize our struggle:
- By inviting delegations from the WFTU Secretariat and the unions affiliated to the WFTU, that we will receive and host in Versailles, to meet the railway workers and to participate in our picket lines, our actions and our events.
- By sending solidarity motions and supporting photos with the French railway workers against privatization, which we will popularize with strikers.
- By passing our Internet link for the solidarity fund with the strikers: Le pot commun.fr: CGT solidarity fund of the railway workers of Versailles
Thank you for your support,
Matthieu Bolle-Reddat, General Secretary of the Union
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