French trade union chief slams UK and US over lack of workers' rights

TheLocal.fr ^ | 12 January 2018 16:54 CET+01:00 | Evie Burrows-Taylor

[Olog-hai]

France does not want to treat its workers like the UK and US, with zero hours contracts and no protection for the unemployed, Philippe Martinez, the head of the hardline CGT, France’s biggest trade union, has said.

Last year, Martinez and his leftist union fought an unsuccessful battle with President Emmanuel Macron over a raft of reforms aimed at freeing up France’s rigid jobs market.

Those controversial reforms cut into the power of France’s trade unions and made it easier for firms to lay off staff.

Martinez believes Macron is influenced by the “Anglo-Saxon” model but he does not want to see the same situation in France.

“Anglo-Saxon countries like the UK and US are Macron’s model…his inspiration,” Martinez told a gathering of journalists from the Anglo American Press Association including The Local. …

[the OlLine Rebel]

Which is also part of why I hate the term “working class”.

The main reason being the implication that no one else actually does work besides low-wage low-skill people.

Screw those “progressives” and marxists. You just know they created that nonsense phrase.

[Deplorable American1776]

Tell me, le cretin, why is European companies opening plants in the USA? We do have states rights and if state X has right to work laws..why should you care. You should ‘Occupe-toi de yes affaires, Connard!!’ (translation: Mind your own business, A—HOLE!!)