(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #229 - Employment policy: The unemployed on to their rights (fr)

The employment policy of the Dutch government is an abysmal hypocrisy and management of 
employment center is clear evidence. To require the government to take responsibility, a 
march of unemployed cross France from June 10 to July 6. ---- Holland keeps repeating: the 
priority of government policy is employment. In a country in crisis, where large groups 
are relocating and dismiss with a vengeance just to maximize profits already totally 
indecent, one might expect a minimum of respect for workers thrown into the street. Yet it 
is quite the opposite. Employment center is the last step before the final destruction of 
what is originally a solidarity fund for workers - Assedic - jointly administered by 
unions and employers, and public service responsible for supporting the unemployed: the ANPE.

Following the refocusing of the CFDT union in the 1980s, Assedic falls into the hands of 
employers' organizations, and UNEDIC conventions, responsible for setting the rules for 
compensation, are increasingly unfavorable. It is also from this period that operates 
slowly reversing the status of unemployed. The employee-are victims of an economic system 
which they are fresh and they are in no way responsible.

Criminalization of worker
Victim, the unemployed will become responsible for their situation, summoned to explain to 
employment center, responsible for its part of the "back to work". Creating employment 
center to end Assedic under state supervision and management. We are witnessing the 
criminalization of an unemployed worker and parallel, as an economy measure, successive 
reforms on how to support the unemployed tend to put it away. The unemployed has now only 
two appointments required by law opened with the aim to limit spending and staffing. We 
can not keep track of the unemployed? Just do not get it! Of all the ways we continue to 
criminalize remotely by a reasonable job offer - which reduces your benefit in case of 
refusal - or through the terms of compensation. We are witnessing is the liquidation of 
the public employment service. Downsizing not to ensure records management compensation, 
clashes are growing in agencies that are always full. We will soon justify the manifest 
lack of employment center and decide to transfer management of unemployment to private 
insurance companies. Kessler and B?B?AR is already rubbing his hands.

To protest against this situation and put the government to its responsibilities, several 
associations of the unemployed - APEIS, AC, MNCP - DAL and two trade unions Pole 
Employment - Snu and the South - organize a march of unemployed cross France from June 10 
to arrive in Paris on July 6. One of their main claim, the drastic reduction of working 
time, the first step in an employment policy a little bit sensible!

Molinier Fran?ois (Paris AL East)