(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #228 - Saint-Denis: The Friday of Anger (fr)

For several months the city of Saint-Denis is in turmoil because of the authoritarian 
management. Resistance is organized around South Union Local authorities (South-CT). 
Backdrop, it is the post-2014 municipal and rigor in local authorities who are involved
The situation worsens for employee-es in the city of Saint-Denis. This is done through 
meetings and attempted humiliation on the part of the hierarchy of practices including 
intimidation against trade unionists from South obstructions the right to strike, a 
petition against executives the right to protest ... and it in different services 
(culture, health, social, early childhood ...). And it is the work stoppages that 
multiply. ---- Weekly Strike ---- A few months ago, an attempt to reorganize the top of 
the health service set fire to the powder.

In the end it is the organization of work is disrupted in breach of workers'. All this in 
the largest hall Front left (FDG) in France.

Not to run out and succeed in uniting a maximum of colleagues on strike for one hour a 
week "Friday of Rage", was introduced. For now, the mayor tries to ignore the movement 
believing they are dealing with "agitators" without realizing the depth of malaise and 
strength mobilization. Attitude also suicidal compared to elections next year, and divides 
the FDG which has anti-capitalist Left in Saint-Denis ...

Southern CT union of the Town Hall is the only one who supports, door and coordinates the 
movement. His analysis of the situation [ 1 ] can be summarized as follows: the state 
announced in February as part of the savings to cope with deficits (created by the 
capitalists ...) a decrease in grants to local communities 4500000000 over three years. 
These management methods, the mayor anticipates budget cuts coming (and therefore reduced 
to the population) seeking to "break" the employee-es are particularly involved and 
combative (the majority are women).

The PS in control

This is not the first movement of employees are in a town hall-PCF. The smaller, in 
Saint-Denis, is that the current mayor, Didier Paillard, left hand up to the PS on key 
positions in the administration. For example, the general manager of services, Fran?ois 
Tch?k?mian, also made a career in PS, and it was he who made the pilot municipal policy 
towards employee-es. And Socialists in ambush to try to recover the mayor politically this 
time in 2014. This situation is indicative of the declining influence and power of CPF.

To understand why a mayor FdG, supported by elected officials Workers Struggle, apply an 
authoritarian management, we can say that the practice of power and institutions, even 
local, requires compromises in the name of "pragmatism" and " reality principle. " No 
institution can ignore the system in which it exists, even claiming the municipal 
communism. Especially since it is part of a system of elective delegation increasingly 
removed from the realities of the population ...

Sergio L. (AL Saint-Denis)

[ 1 ] The leaflets and videos mobilization (very dynamic) are on the website of the local 
union Solidarity Saint-Denis: solidaires.saintdenis.over-blog.org