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According to counsel the Germany is no need to take any decision on what either todayWhen he called me I only had never met himEquality of opportunity it is also work for allThus the unemployment rate has dropped to 7Deliberate provocation the law requiring local authorities to balance their budgetsIf the original is fuzzy the photocopy will be blurredTwo other agencies should soon see the dayA little more formality in a market still very secretClavier volume I of Johann Sebastian Bach080 euros and an average loss flood of 21Election period is more synonymous with social truce. Of course, the trade union confederations still play the game at the national level. But on the ground, at three days of the first round of regional elections, the Government sees multiply scattered movements, including the succession and diversity facing. Few are now sectors, private sector as in the public, still spared by the grumbling. In a context of output of crisis whose effects are expected and continued heavy reforms in the public, many professions attempt now to take advantage of the political calendar for better be heard.
The litany of claims to the program of this week is eloquent. Monday, health professionals gathered to denounce the reform of hospitals. Tuesday, judges and lawyers marched against the draft revision of the criminal procedure. And today, not less than four professions are called upon to strike: the personal of crèches, on "working conditions" (read below). practitioners, "a system of health adrift" (see opposite); nurses, opposed to the reform of their retirement; and finally the employees of urban transport (at least 12 cities will be affected), where the intersyndicale wants to "show the anger of the employees in a few days of regional elections.
Sense of injustice
Tomorrow, strikes are announced in the colleges and schools, against deletions of posts including, and in the companies of waste collection, where employees militate for the recognition of the arduous nature of their business. Symbol of the broad dissemination of social unease, even the employees of Emmaus stopped work Tuesday, for the first time in their history.
Private sector, the landscape is marked by heavy conflict on employment (Total at Dunkirk, ST-Ericsson to Caen) and tensions related to salary negotiations do not fall. "L es employees feel suffer more injustice", said the CGT. Evidenced by the magnitude of the movement that hit Danone Tuesday, with sites, from 30 to 100 of strikers in the domestic production of fresh products, pushing the direction, yesterday, to wage extensions (read below). In the large distribution, the Federation trade the CFDT launched Tuesday until Sunday, an operation "1,000 sections in action." Yesterday, the CGT called for the strike in refineries on 15 April. Thales, a rally is planned at Headquarters on wages today and unions call for strike at Teleperformance (call centres). No respite before the voting, steps of respite after not more: confederations are preparing to enter the scene with the inter-trade union mobilization (without the GSC and the CFTC) securely on 23 March, two days just after the second round of the elections. CFDT and CGT ensure that "the mobilization is not intended to serve as a third social tour", they hope to take advantage of the momentum of the defeat announced to the Executive.
A great first test
The appointment of 23 March will indeed mark the first great social test of the spring for the Government, decided to pursue the reforms, and social margins of manoeuvre is very limited by the size of the budget deficit. Whether if unions succeed their bet: agglomerating at the national level of the now scattered anger. The magnitude of the movement remains limited and appears little worry about the Executive. The ability of unions to build a true report of forces will depend in part on the degree of inflexibility of the State on many issues in the program of the next few weeks: pensions, unemployed at the end of rights, three-year wage bargaining in the public service.
