Force Ouvrière will not participate in the demonstration on September 29 at the call of the CGT
Force Ouvrière will not participate in the day of strike and demonstration organized at the call of the CGT on September 29, the general secretary of the third French union, Frédéric Souillot, said on Tuesday.
The CGT and Solidaires called at the beginning of summer for a day of strike and demonstration on September 29, and since then they have received the support of left-wing parties and associations such as Attac and Oxfam. All these organizations have jointly signed a joint press release published on August 28.
However, the unions could converge on a European day of action for wage increases “in the first half of October”, according to Frédéric Souillot. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will decide the exact date of this day on September 13, he said.
Right to abortion in the Constitution: an environmental text to be debated in the Senate on October 19
The Senate environmental group plans to put on the agenda of the High Assembly on October 19, within the framework of a “niche” that it has reserved, a bill to inscribe the right to abortion and contraception in the Constitution .
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Security, unemployment insurance: the executive enters the hard
More police and gendarmes, prolonged tightening of compensation conditions for the unemployed: the executive presents two sensitive bills on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, in which he hopes to unite the right against a left determined to give battle.
With these two texts, Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne enter the hard part of this beginning of the five-year period, in the absence of an absolute majority, after a first more consensual exercise this summer on purchasing power, in the midst of an explosion of energy prices due in part to the war in Ukraine.
- unemployment insurance reform It promises to be one of the most divisive bills with the 2023 budget, pending that highly flammable pension bill that the head of state said he was targeting for “first enforcement” next summer.
- The project of law of orientation and programming of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi) foresees an additional 15,000 million euros in the budget for five years for the police.
Taxation: the Paris city council wants to tax the most well-off more
The Paris city council, which criticizes the state for a financial withdrawal, recommends in a report published on Tuesday higher taxation of unoccupied homes and offices, and wealthy tourists, which would require legislative intervention.
While the Paris City Council values the cost to it of the health crisis at 1,200 million euros, between the loss of income and the additional expenses, “the current system of taxation of local authorities is at the end of its rope, and needs be urgently reformed”, underline in their proposals Nicolás Bonnet-Oulaldj, leader of the Parisian communist elected officials, and Paul Simondon, PS deputy for mayor Anne Hidalgo’s finances.
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