Social Pact for France?

international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press Monday June 06, 2005 12:28 by € - "saint precaire ora pro nobis!"

François Chérèque the leader of the largest French trade union has just finished the first round of discussions with the new French Prime minister aimed at reducing unemployment.

He has proposed a social pact on four priorities-

employment
combatting precarity.
prospects for youth.
social security.

«et enfin. la lutte contre la pauvreté »,
"& finally the struggle against poverty"

the website of the union CFDT
http://www.cfdt.fr/edito.htm

the news reports:-
The right wing "equivalent to english telegraph" Le Figaro is the most enthusiastic. Le Monde and Liberation simply remindiing their readers this will be a long week for DeV, and a long week if you've a precarious job, can't make ends meet, &c.

http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/social/20050606.FAP0029.html?1133
http://www.boursier.com/vals/all/feed.asp?id=2206

This "2nd week of DeV" is opened now on this thread, and we watch him in his "100 days" and i'll add reaction from local groups-
(((i.e. indymedia france)))

It shall be interesting to see how this works, as I touched upon in yesterday's "sunday papers".
For Raffarin and by implication all the political leaders in Europe used maintain that all that was possible under the rules of free market capitalism was being done.


The appointment of Dominque de villepin and his first 6 days :-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70054
Europe's magic figures 8% though an older article gives you indication of the progressive disregard of the main european states on the issues of unemployment.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62842