"The presence of many left-wing and environmentalist political representatives in support of the ArcelorMittal employees is, I believe, a powerful symbol," says Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the Ecologists, who joined Olivier Faure (PS) and François Ruffin (former LFI) at the May Day demonstration in Dunkirk to protest against ArcelorMittal's plan to cut approximately 600 jobs at its sites in northern and eastern France. SOUNDBITE