#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #334 - Spotlight, Unemployed and precarious: Twenty years of mobilization, it continues! (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Saturday, December 3, the day of demonstrations in defense of unemployed and

precarious people, direct actions took place in Fougères (35), to disrupt a job
dating, to the chagrin of employers and the local press. ---- Saturday, December
3 several demonstrations took place in different cities of France at the call of
four organizations[1]. This annual demonstration of jobless and precarious people
had as its main demand the fight against the new unemployment insurance reform at
the end of the year. This twentieth edition brought together several hundred
people throughout France. ---- On the Fougères side, an action to distribute
leaflets was carried out on December 1 in front of a job dating organized with
great fanfare by the Macronist town hall, employers (the CCI of Ille-et-Vilaine)
and the local newspaper (The Republican Chronicle). Thirty companies were present
for 300 vacancies. We promoted our committee of the unemployed, unemployed and
precarious CGT and highlighted the local struggles that had taken place this
year, or are still underway, in several of these companies. We also called for a
common struggle between employed and unemployed people. It was then that we
received a visit from the director of La Chronique : "This is not the place to do
that, companies have paid to be here and you are giving them bad publicity". We
had therefore disturbed the ambient tranquility.

What about jobs to be filled? As everywhere, we find occupations in tension,
poorly paid or with difficult working conditions (construction, commerce,
agri-food, logistics, leather goods, personal services) and precarious contracts
: fixed-term contracts, temporary work. Four hundred people still passed. But the
tone of the article in La Chronique republicaine is quite different: "It is
indeed not easy for companies to recruit, in a sector where the unemployment rate
was 4.7% at the start of the school year in September". There is also an
interview with an unhappy recruiter: "We call it a candidate market, candidates
have the power, Ten years ago recruiters chose from candidates. Today, it is the
candidate who chooses his company.[They]go to the highest bidder[...], ask us
about the working conditions[...]the presence of changing rooms, the provision of
work clothes, the possibility of having lunch on site in a canteen, etc. ".
However, these are only very basic requests.

If the poor disappear from the statistics, poverty explodes ! So, is the power
really on the side of the candidates? No, because the balance of power is still
on the side of the exploiters, trade unionism is no longer suited to precarious
forms of work and isolated acts of resistance are risky. All is not lost,
however. Rebuilding mutual aid and solidarity through a new form of Labor
Exchange could be a solution. The CNTPEP organizes an action of simultaneous
occupation of the Pôle-emploi agencies in several cities of France on December
28. At this time we do not yet know the result of this action but it will only be
the beginning of a rise in power of our resistance!

Alexis (UCL Fougeres)

To validate

[1]The National Committee of Unemployed and Precarious Workers (CNTPEP-CGT), the
National Movement of the Unemployed and Precarious (MNCP), the Association for
Employment, Information and Solidarity of the Unemployed and Precarious (APEIS)
and Act together against unemployment (AC!).

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