Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and industrial unrest leading to May 1968 (1950–1968)

1. Postwar wage pressure and CGT-led strike waves

   Aug 12, 1953Labels: CGT, Joseph Laniel

   • CIA FOIA
   • CGT History

2. Charonne killings link labor and antiwar protest

   Feb 8, 1962Labels: Charonne, CGT

   • CGT FR

3. French miners begin a major nationwide strike

   Mar 1, 1963Labels: miners, CGT

   • Miners Strike
   • Crimson 1963

4. Miners’ strike ends after weeks of disruption

   Apr 3, 1963Labels: miners strike, French government

   • Miners Strike
   • Crimson 1963

5. CGT and CFDT sign unity-of-action agreement

   Jan 10, 1966Labels: CGT, CFDT

   • CGT Bureau
   • CGT History

6. General strike protests wage policy and “full powers”

   May 16, 1967Labels: general strike, CGT

   • 1967 Movement

7. Georges Séguy elected CGT general secretary

   Jun 16, 1967Labels: Georges S, CGT

   • CGT Profile
   • S guy EN

8. Jeanneney social security ordinances trigger broad opposition

   Aug 21, 1967Labels: Jeanneney ordinances, CGT

   • INA Archive
   • 1967 Movement

9. Unions call one-day general strike backing students

   May 13, 1968Labels: one-day strike, CGT

   • May 68
   • 1968 France

10. Factory occupations expand into a national strike wave

    May 16, 1968Labels: factory occupations, CGT

    • 1968 France
    • May 68

11. Grenelle negotiations produce major wage concessions

    May 27, 1968Labels: Grenelle negotiations, Georges S

    • Grenelle
    • Encyclopedia

12. Rank-and-file rejection weakens union control of the strike

    May 27, 1968Labels: rank-and-file, Renault Billancourt

    • May June 1968
    • Encyclopedia

13. De Gaulle dissolves Assembly and calls elections

    May 30, 1968Labels: Charles de, National Assembly

    • Grenelle
    • 1968 France

14. Workplace union sections legalized after the crisis

    Dec 27, 1968Labels: section syndicale, French law

    • Grenelle
    • Syndicalism