sit-in against redundancies.
The company declared 1905 redundancies workforce of 17,000 When the CFDT declared a strike and sit-in against the redundancies, Peugeot suspended 17,000 workers and threatened to dismiss all of them.
In a scandalous move dominated CGT SUDDULI the strike and called for 'sensinegotiations' Paradoxically the CFDT, which is generally more pro-Socialist has begun to take a more independent stance dustrial struggles. The attitude CGT, however, following the line of the CP which wants at least for the moment to remain in the government. has been to cool industrial fights. evict about 100 workers occupying the PeugeotTalbot car factory in Poissy. The forcible eviction of What makes the attack on the Poissy workers even more criminal is that the majority of the strikers are workers North Africa. in a na tional climate of growing racism and the strengthening of the extreme right wing, ll nas been only too easy for the Peugeot company to whip up hostility to the strikers.
The duty of the CFDT and the CT equally was the build support for the strikers. The Socialist-led government handed the right wing a gift by backing the company and by using not ponce — a acci sion taken at a restricted Call the Communist stay in government which uses riot police workers? Anyone who had illusions in the Mitterand government should take a the Poissy hard 100k CVCHILs
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THE GOVERNMENT of Francois Mitterand in France has sanctioned the use of 500 riot police to
the strikers, members of the pro-Socialist Party CFDT trade union, comes at the end of a three week