France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Special Nmber - Sunday work and night: Trade looks up (fr, it, pt)

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Special Nmber -
Sunday work and night: Trade looks up (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]

Adopted for the second time on June 16 by 49-3 in the Assembly, the Macron law is now 115 
articles, 19 orders and many come regressions. Illustration in trade, where employees are 
determined not to let it go. ---- For Brecht, "in any idea, you have to look at who she 
goes and who she is; only then will we understand its effectiveness. " What connection can 
thus unite the extension of night work and Sunday, lowering the means of defense of 
workers, commodification of blood, privatization of airports and the granting of bonus 
shares contained in the Act? Answer: meet the orders of the European Commission for whom 
France needs to catch up in terms of structural reforms and accentuate the pro-business 
policies of the government, in place since 2013.

An unprecedented response

From five to twelve annual opening Sundays creation by the competent ministers, to 
further the agreement including the mayor concerned, international tourist areas that will 
open fifty-two Sundays a year, as major stations, and until midnight, facilitation of the 
classification of shopping centers in shopping areas to open all year round here are so 
disparaged provisions relating to Sunday and night work enshrined in the law Macron. 
Besides the fact that they constitute a complete negation of PS's commitments in the 
opposition and the candidate Holland, they open the way for a rapid generalization of 
Sunday work and night that ultimately lead us to the 24/7 society whose capitalist dream.

The Click-P, intersyndical framework established in Paris (see box), is leading the 
response: 14 November and 16 December 2014, 2 000 3 000 wage earners of trade, from 
department stores, including many of the demonstrators perfumery, apparel and retail, went 
on strike and demonstrated. The importance of these movements on the scale of this sector 
is no stranger to the refusal of the Paris City Hall to support the extension of the 
openings required by the government

The Senate, dominated by the right, without a hardened surprise the provisions in question 
by extending the evening work with existing tourist areas and introducing the use of 
referendums in the absence of trade union agreement allowing Sunday opening: the same 
policy altogether but to a higher degree. Moreover, an amendment, jointly voted by the 
right and the socialists, authorize the permanent opening of the shops right of cultural 
goods, ie without voluntary or compensation! Arguably it is the persistence of this 
mobilization, in a weakly organized sector, however, which led several regional unions 
franciliennes to organize a demonstration on January 26 at the time of the examination of 
the law by the Assembly Macron. Likewise for the mobilization of inter 9th of April when, 
on this occasion, the CGT and FO trade federations respectively first and third 
organization in the industry, and the new South trade federation, launched a joint appeal 
which allowed a limited extension of the mobilization in the regions.

An implementation strewn with obstacles

Because of the decision, especially the CGT, to refer any new inter-action only able to 
block the adoption of this law, in October, the Clic-P, sometimes joined by the CNT-SO and 
FO has continued to carry alone protest. No less than three rallies were held since last 
May, marked among other things by the participation of hundreds of cultural goods stores 
including Fnac employees who went on strike on May 29; a picnic giant he was held in front 
of City Hall on June 28, the first Sunday of balances, allowing isolated wage earners to 
express their dislike of the project.

This agitation has already allowed the removal of the Fnac amendment and to reconsider the 
provisions hardened by the Senate. Volunteering put forward by the Minister is an 
illusion: in addition subordination consubstantial with any working relationship, examples 
of more or less forced volunteerism, with low wages abound in business as in union 
hotlines. As for the promised compensation, they will be based on local power relations as 
the law provides, however, the need to have, in two years, a majority union agreement to 
open (the Agreement can be found at different levels of negotiation, or even in companies 
with less than 11 wage earners, through referendum). At the time of writing, it is likely 
that the law will Macron, after a final passage through the Senate, finally passed in 
mid-July via forceps use, for the third time, at 49-3; you say democracy?

According to Rosa Luxemburg, "We are camped on these losses and we can not give up any of 
them because we get each part of our strength and lucidity": both within the P-click that 
opposing teams activists these openings, the experience thus accumulated and solidarity 
will lead to no doubt, to blockages, in legal terms as a social, of the latter.

Laurent Degousée (SUD Trade)


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