Six month fight back
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-01-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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It isn't that we're caught between the loony left and mystical separatists. The important issue being ignored is how we must forge a link between such feminist movements and Trotskyists. That's the dilemma However I think it is utopian I find myself in when I'm at July 7: Unions reveal Peugeot plans to cut 10,000 of the 17,000 jobs at Poissy.
July 21: One-day strike in protest. October: Government acceput October: Governmen 4,500 early retirements but refuses to approve additional sackings.
November 21: Peugeot demands 4,905 sackings.
December 7: Several thousan workers at Poissy strike and occupy the factory.
December 17: The government and Peugeot agree on 1,905 sackings. Sacking letters go out within the next few days. CGT accepts the agreement, CFDT rejects it. Occupation continues. December 19: Peugeot announces that the factory is shut until January 2. Occupation continues.
December 26: Four CGT delegates, at a press conference say the workers disagree with their union's attitude and want 200,000 francs (about £17,000)
redundancy pay to enable then to return to their own countries December 27: Court order granted to evict the occupying workers.
December 28: Peugeot announce that they are 'spinning off' Talbot, legally enabling them to liquidate it without involving the rest of the corporation.
December 31: Government sends in riot police to evict the occupiers.
January 3: Work due to restart - prevented by militant action. Some clashes between workers Factory briefly reoccupied. CFDT proposes to the management that the 1,905 workers be laid -off while negotiations proceed! But it continues the action.
January 5: Attack by members of the fascist 'union' CSL on CFDT pickets. Pickets retreat into factory and use cars as barricades to protect them. 55 ›eople injured, some seriously: 19 hospitalised. Peugeot an nounces indefinite shutdown of the plant from January 6. January 6: CGT organises 20,000-strong demonstration in Paris; the ČSL, together with Gaullist local council, a 4,500-strong demonstration in Poissy. The Poissy demonstration is also supported by the right wing union FO, and shopkeepers shut for two hours in support.
January 8: CFDT calls off strike. Te Labour Socialist the toin ORGANIC- Fight for
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