According to the police, the traditional May 1 parade brought together just over 700 people in the streets of Les Abymes.
The procession linked the René Serge Nabajoth stadium to the town hall, where representatives of the 12 trade union organizations organized a speech.
They denounced the high cost of living, the health insurance reform, the lack of positions in National Education. And all the union centers welcomed the agreement obtained by the planters’ collective.
Jeans Dernault, the secretary general of the SPEG, spoke to Naïza Rippon on the subject of job cuts in National Education.
Concerning Education, stop the job cuts in our academy. An academy that creates a lot of failures. More than 20% illiteracy, 1,800 students leaving the school system without qualifications, without diplomas. Bad results in everything that is evaluated at the educational level. So, stop the job cuts. Also stop the expatriations of our young graduates, to counterbalance the demographic decline, but also to educate our young people instead of putting a curfew on them.
Health insurance and unemployment insurance reforms were also at the heart of the demands.
For Jean-Marie Nomertin, general secretary of the CGTG, this day was important for the entire working class in view of the looming difficulties.
TO LISTEN Jean Marie Nomertingeneral secretary of the CGTG
In the procession, for employees largely from the public sector but also from the private sector such as construction, being present was necessary.
TO LISTEN Their reactions to Naiza Rippon’s microphone
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