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France: WFTU Solidarity with the French workers who called on strike

13 Friday Oct 2017

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France:Solidarity with the French workers who called on strike
12 Oct 2017 EUROPE, FRANCE

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), representing more than 92 million workers in 126 countries worldwide, reiterates its internationalist solidarity with French civil servants and with all the workers who called for a strike on 10 October 2017.

As international class-orineted trade union movement, we support the protests and demands of all workers in France against the reform of the labor code, against the job cuts and the attack on their social rights and acquired rights.

We call the workers of France to join their voices with their striking colleagues and to coordinate their struggles to deal with the anti-labor measures of the EU and the French government.

The struggle continues!

French Workers protest against anti-worker labour reforms.

21 Thursday Sep 2017

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Paris, Sep 21 : Unions staged new protests Thursday against an overhaul of France’s labour laws, hoping to build pressure on President Emmanuel Macron days before his flagship reforms are expected to enter into force.
The marches and strikes come a week after hundreds of thousands of people — 200,000 according to police, half a million according to organisers — demonstrated against the measures in the first major challenge to Macron since he was elected in May.

More rallies are expected Saturday, staged by hard-left political party France Unbowed, which will provide another measure of the resistance to 39-year-old Macron’s pro-business agenda.

The Communist-backed CGT union has organised Thursday’s protests and its secretary general, former car worker Philippe Martinez, called the first round last Tuesday “a good start”.

“What’s important today and in the days and weeks ahead is that the movement gets bigger,” Martinez added. (Courtesy: Press Reports)

Railway workers’ Strike in France

20 Friday May 2016

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Paris, May 18 : Strikes by French railway and port workers halved train services and prompted cancellation of ferry links to Britain on Wednesday as labor unions sought to force President Francois Hollande’s government into retreat on labor law reforms.

The strike is a full success crippling the entire train services. The labour law reforms which are anti-workers are strongly opposed by the unions. They have been protesting and demanding the withdrawal of the same.

 

 

CondemnTerror Strike in Paris – We stand with France in their time of distress

15 Sunday Nov 2015

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The terror strike by IS in Paris, killing more than 120 people and injuring another hundred or more, is condemned by people world wide. This is a cowardly act, killing innocent people. At this time of distress, all should stand with the people of France. Our full sympathies with France and its people. The world nations should stand together to stop terrorism.

3.43 million jobless in France, the highest ever

25 Saturday Oct 2014

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Paris, Oct 25: Unemployment in France hit a new record in September, with official statistics published showing 3.43 million people claimed jobless benefits.
The figures showed a rise of 19,200 people joining the jobless queue and come as President Francois Hollande marks the midway point in his troubled mandate.
Since his election in May 2012, unemployment has swelled by more than half a million people. (Courtesy : Ganashakti)