(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #238 - Intermittent: Back on stage (fr, pt)

Faced with new attacks MEDEF, intermittent rally. Many activities are planned in 
connection with the unemployed and precarious. The challenge: to create unity and 
solidarity in the struggle to demand new rights and wage war to employers. ---- "Lowering 
the cost of labor" is the motto of the MEDEF for regular cuts in social contributions. In 
2003, after three billion euros offered to employers, the government reform the 
unemployment insurance fund to reduce the "deficit." However, this pseudo deficit is the 
result of the enrichment of owners who refuse to participate in interprofessional 
solidarity fund invented to eliminate the poor, even an unemployed two is not compensated. 
In 2003, the scapegoats are all found intermittent! The government will proceed bosses, 
among other things, a big reform Annexes 8 and 10, the famous "rescue" plan intermittent.

Result: the exclusion of 35% of eligible, especially the most vulnerable and those in the 
performing arts, the overall decline in unemployment benefits... except for very large 
income! Renegotiations of agreements Un?dic following years will bring more whenever 
infringement more precarious. But those for 2014-2017 are fatal: this time it is downright 
question of deleting temporary social systems, technicians and performing artists, in 
addition to the reduction of compensation and increased durations Affiliate in connection 
with fluctuations in the level of unemployment.

From 2003 to 2014

The bitter taste of the 2003 reform is on everyone's lips. Intermittent, often alongside 
precarious and unemployed were mobilized en masse at this time: direct actions, 
occupations... The cancellation of the Avignon Festival in 2003 also marked the spirits. 
This time the MEDEF seeks all possible to get the pill strategies: he postponed at the 
last moment the negotiations scheduled from March 13 to March 20, 2014 But intermittent 
not taken apart, mobilized es since January, and they. they maintained the strike action 
planned on 12 and 13 March: occupation of the Court of Auditors, the MEDEF, agency P?le 
emploi... Then on March 18 with the workers, the unemployed and precarious, and again on 
March 20 to accommodate the MEDEF. They want a fair and shared compensation system, the 
guarantee of rights and income for all and support for the lively and popular face of the 
growing commodification of culture show. They want to live their art without being subject 
to capitalist pressures, making culture a tool of emancipation, not enslavement.

In 2003 the movement had already faced strategies divisions between artists and 
technicians of the show. This year, it is clear that intermittent can not turn their backs 
on the unity of the movement and in particular the unemployed and precarious also 
mobilized es. This fight should be as ours and we must be vigilant that it does not end 
with some gagging after getting a few crumbs by employers. While many unions, collective 
and strike boxes are joined on this struggle, we already feel the attempts of some, an 
election year, to agree to negotiate with the MEDEF or puppets. The secret of victory is 
an uncompromising struggle for the rights of all.

Camille (AL Marseille)