“We will be in resistance as long as it takes, with a calendar of actions which is already planned beyond September. We will be the leftist ones and we assume it. We will be the human rights defenders, we will be the feminists who rise against the attacks made to women, we will be like the poppies which can flower on arid soils, including those of Arizona, promised the president of the socialist union.
“We will have tried to bury ourselves under tons of lies, we will reflect wherever we are expected and in a greater number,” he added by stressing the need “to stay on the street to raise awareness of all workers, including those who thought they would not be affected by government measures”.
A federal executive that the union would like to see falling before the end of the legislature even if it knows that this fight is never simple. But if it was, “we would still be happy to have participated,” quipped Thierry Bodson.
Throughout his speech, the latter had no hard enough words against the measures announced by the government of Wever. “We must say things as they are: we have before us, for 3 months, a right -wing government, whose agreement was a real cold shower,” pointed out the president of the FGTB.
“This agreement is smoking. In reality, the only promise they hold is the exclusion of the unemployed after two years,” he continued. According to the socialist union, 140,000 people will be excluded from unemployment on January 1, 2026, “a shock impossible to absorb for CPAS”. “This means that at the end of next January, thousands of people will have absolutely nothing to live. And when it is said to the government, it does not listen to it. It is above-ground and odious,” said Thierry Bodson, not without recalling that only 13,000 unemployed have been registered there for more than 15 years. “Can we exclude 140,000 people for these 13,000?” He said falsely.
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Also in the sights of the union official: the committed “who lost their souls” by climbing in the majority but also the Flemish socialists of Vooruit. The two teams had justified their entry into the executive by the defense of the index, among others. “Three months later, they forgot their major statements and the index is postposed.”
As for the file of the taxation of capital gains of which Vooruit had made a condition of his entry into the majority, “I thought that Conner Rousseau was more strategic than that: with what weapon will he negotiate this taxation when he folded in all socio-economic files and he no longer has any peanuts in pocket?”
For the FGTB, the response to these attacks – many – will be on the street, including a day of action on June 27. “The CSC said that she would not come with us but if she sees that many of us mobilize, I promise you that she will join us. As usual, we have had to hell them but the activists of the CSC will be with us,” concluded Thierry Bodson.
