France, Alternative Libertaire AL #250 - Austerity: React
quickly against bad beats (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
PS Political power is not only a circumstantial way to please their bosses friends. It
also aims to delve a little deeper into the country pure liberalism juice. The conquests
of workers and workers are threatened as never before, and it is urgent to fight for not
finding us tomorrow with half a monthly minimum wage to cry. ---- The PS promises that the
government does not conduct an austerity policy, but essential. The proof? This is the
secretary of the CFDT confirmed! ---- Austerity full pot ---- Austerity has two faces. The
most visible: higher taxes, wage freeze for civil servants in five years, blocking pension
for three years. Or the implementation of the plan to save 50 billion Valls announced last
year for 2014-2017. Or 18 billion savings on direct government spending and the delayed
key jobs and broken investments; 11 billion decrease for the repayments to local
authorities that result in clean cuts in municipal budgets or significant increases in
local taxes; and 21 billion in spending on health and social benefits resulting for
example the loss of 22 000 jobs in hospitals.
The other face is hidden, sneaky. That's all that concerns the dismantling of public
services and their commercialization. For liberalism is the other name of austerity. While
the cumulative policy Sarkozy and Holland we have not yet swallow the bitterest potions
experienced in Greece. But the ten year reign of Sarkozy / Holland, if nothing is done to
stop the steamroller, have profoundly reshaped the country. For employers ambitions are
far from being met.
It is therefore urgent to make an overview of future attacks even as Macron, Minister of
Economy, found that the French workers are too "protected" and calls on employers for wage
moderation.
Labor Law
The Macron law still under discussion and whose vote should not take place before June -
which allows time for mobilization to boost - so plans to reduce the rights of labor
courts by setting ceilings and allowances introducing professional judges. The layoffs
would be even accelerated in the procedure and subsidiaries of employees would be deprived
of opportunities to turn against their parent or principal. Delegates in fewer than 300
employees would be fewer companies, grouped in a single instance and required less
frequent meetings. Mandatory annual negotiations would be simplified, consolidated and
less frequent. Business agreements could derogate from the collective agreement without
consulting branch of the Committee partiaire branch. Besides there will even need to
steward to carry out these negotiations... Finally the workforce size thresholds that
trigger today additional obligations for employers would be "relaxed." Sunday work and
night would be commonplace. At the same time labor inspectors see their cropped missions
and under supervision of a supervisor and will always have less time to accomplish their
missions.
Flexible CDI
The government still hesitate to attack head-on the CDI, accused of preventing employers
to hire. With more than 5 million unemployed, who can still dare to declare that it is
difficult to dismiss in France? Several avenues are open to discreetly disappear CDI.
Progressive CDI (which turns into a real CDI that after four years) seems to be ruled out:
too conspicuous. And the mobilization of youth against the CPE is in everyone's memory.
Instead, the government is working on flexible and secure CDI: as for vocational training
whose meager grandfathering now follow the employee to business changes, would follow
other elements such as the basic welfare and rights to unemployment, points arduousness
account. With these "security" employees should enjoy the removal of any protection
against dismissal that would become virtually painless... The idea comes from the
"slingers" PS, ie if it is left!
In "arduous"
The famous account "hardship" is still not really in place and taking into account all the
criteria is suspended. The law had to meet CFDT brandishing the "advanced" in exchange
setbacks that it has accepted the retirement rights for all. But the bosses who denounce
an inapplicable gas plant are not wrong. Taking into account the timed exposure of each
employee in a dozen painful factors (noise, night, cold...) is almost unenforceable.
Therefore Rebsamen, Minister of Labour, multiplies the effects of ads before the Congress
employer federations denouncing the gasworks and promising simplification. Alas, we can
doubt that in fact it is a simplification of burial that the government is preparing
quietly to his friends of the CFDT...
Supplementary pensions
Supplementary pensions, Arrco contributions for employees and AGIRC for executives, are in
the red. Fewer contributors and retirees, you know the chorus and logic seems
relentless... The issue is important because, as appropriate, this retreat, which
complements the basic pension paid by Social Security, represents 30% 50% of the total
pension. The bosses have essentially two proposals on the table and did not move, but the
margin will be held after the third negotiation meeting with trade union confederations.
On the one hand a drastic decline in survivors' pensions (which is donated to the widow,
means-tested, after the beneficiary's death; the system also works for widows but the
cases are rare).
On the other hand a discount between 62 and 67 years with a gradual rise to a full pension
at 67 years only. This measure would be a springboard for a decline to 67 years of
retirement for the general scheme. The only setbacks Medef to date focus on the regression
rate and the year of application: native 1956, 1957, 1958?
Before the summer holidays
All these negotiations and those under development laws are supposed to be completed
before the parliamentary recess, around mid-July. They fully justify a massive movement of
farm strike and determined without which, with some nuances, they will become our new
standards. A day will not be enough, for sure. Now that you are warned, for you to see...
Jean-Yves (G 93)
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