Macron’s anti-union reforms have passed the first stage, so what’s next for the French left?
Macron’s gamble appears to be paying off. By front loading his five-year term with sweeping labor law reforms, the newly elected president bet that the union movement and its allies would be too weak and (...)
The day of March 22nd was a real success. In the 180 cities where there were demonstrations at the call of seven public service unions, everywhere the figures represented an increase compared to October 10th, 2017, the last time there was a strike of the public sector, whereas at the time the (...)
Yesterday, French rail workers kicked off months of rolling strikes against Macron’s attacks on their working conditions. Last week, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe unveiled sweeping reforms to the publicly owned French National Railway Corporation (SNCF). As with the pro-business labor law (...)
Protests and strikes by rail workers has disrupted travel across France. France is once again on the brink of an all-out industrial war — and its outcome could transform the country’s political landscape.
The showdown is over the plans that President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard (...)
Today’s rail and civil-service strike in France is the latest union fightback against Macron’s neoliberal agenda.
Rail workers on strike in Paris, joining striking civil servants at Bastille, March 22, 2018. Cole Stangler
France has one of the best railway systems in the world. The network is (...)
The first weeks of Emmanuel Macron’s labor reforms have brought a wave of layoffs across France.
It’s been a rough start to the new year for the French job market. On January 9, Groupe PSA, Europe’s second largest automaker, announced plans to cut 2,200 jobs across the country . Shortly (...)
PARIS — The announcements came in a steady drumbeat. Around 1,300 job cuts at France’s biggest automaker. At least 2,500 at France’s largest supermarket chain. Over 200 sought at a major clothing retailer. And thousands more are on the way.
Just weeks after France’s labor overhaul went into (...)
Surprise, surprise: Emmanuel Macron’s first budget slashes taxes on wealth and guts social spending.
Anyone with lingering doubts about whether the moniker “President of the Rich” fits France’s Emmanuel Macron could safely put them to rest this month, upon publication of his first budget since (...)
Confrontation with Emmanuel Macron and his government has been inevitable since the French presidential and parliamentary elections of May and June 2017. Everyone knew his programme would include a rapid and profound challenge to employment law and social protection, combined with a policy of (...)
The French president’s proposed labor code would have grave consequences for workers.
Give him credit for consistency at least. Amid all the equivocations shaping his career, French President Emmanuel Macron has remained singularly committed to the cause of remaking labor law to favor (...)
France’s militant unions held the first major day of protest on September 12 against the ordinances introduced by the government to undermine the country’s labour laws.
Their protests were seen as the start of the campaign to defend workers’ rights. It served as a major test for the capacity of (...)
French unions will strike today against Macron’s anti-labor reforms. It is likely to be the beginning of a long battle.
Demonstrators protest Macron’s anti-social policies, July 2017. Credit: RT
After much anticipation, the French government finally unveiled sweeping labor law reforms on August (...)
Macron’s gamble appears to be paying off. By front loading his five-year term with sweeping labor law reforms, the newly elected president bet that the union movement and its allies would be too weak and divided to seriously contest their passage. So far, the decision has proven wise.
On Friday (...)
“Our uprising has nothing to do with the collar-and-tie pantomime artistes who govern us. It was the visible expression of an invisible force. It was the public manifestation of a drive for life. It came from gut feeling and from the heart. You do not subject gut feeling to balance sheets. You (...)
The Valls government will not manage to stifle the rejection of the labour law before July 5, the date when it returns to the National Assembly for a final vote. Most likely he will not be able to avoid having recourse to article 49.3 , unless he really retreats on the content of the projected (...)
The protest movement against the proposed labour law (known by the name of the labour minister El Khomri) has been underway since 9 March of this year. The SP government is trying hard to snuff it out. Last week the Paris demonstration called by the coordinating committee of 9 trade-union (...)
The French government has reversed a controversial ban on a Paris protest march against François Hollande’s proposed new labour laws, saying the street demonstration can go ahead but only if it is confined to a small area of the capital.
A political row had broken out when the authorities issued (...)
For the government and the media controlled by the regime and the big groups, this day was to be a non-event, the symbolic gesture of an exhausted movement. And yet a huge cortege marched in the streets of Paris on June 14, 2016 crossing the southwest neighbourhoods of Paris from the Place (...)
Massive strikes and protests are rocking France, with the threat of greater shocks to come as a hated labor law “counterreform” comes to the French Senate for discussion on June 14.
The Socialist Party government led by President François Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls is attempting to (...)
The government’s plan to adopt employment laws more in line with those in the UK has plunged the country into strike chaos.
What do France’s labour reforms aim to achieve?
The reforms that have plunged France into strike chaos this week are aimed at simplifying and relaxing the country’s labour (...)
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