Social, salary, environmental and democratic emergencies: let’s mobilize!
Abstention and the far right reached a record during the European elections on June 9. This trend is at work throughout Europe but France is the country in which far-right lists score the highest.
Our trade union organizations have been warning for years about the social and democratic crisis affecting our country. A politician who turns his back on social issues and who creates downgrading, abandonment of our industries and our public services, the force against the historic mobilization against pension reform, the absence of prospects for progress and the trivialization of racist theses , constitute the breeding ground on which the extreme right thrives.
The far right is a danger to our freedoms and our democracy!
By deciding to dissolve the National Assembly, and to organize legislative elections in three weeks, after the first departures on vacation and on the eve of the Olympic Games, the Contempteur of the Republic takes on a heavy responsibility.
We need a democratic and social revival. Otherwise, the extreme right will come to power! We have seen it at work in history and today in Italy or Argentina for example: austerity for salaries and public services, constitutional reforms calling into question the independence of the judiciary and the role of unions. , attacks on the rights of women and LGBTQIA+ people, questioning of the right to abortion, racist policies which pit workers against each other based on their religion, color or nationality. We know his votes in France as in Europe, they are always unfavorable to workers.
Our Republic and our democracy are in danger. We must respond to the social and environmental emergency and listen to the aspirations of workers and in particular:
- Increase salaries and pensions;
- Return to pension reform and unemployment insurance reform;
- Defend our public services and guarantee access to them for all, regardless of nationality and throughout the country. Our school, our research, our health system, our dependency care system, our justice system are asphyxiated and need massive investments;
- Put an end to the verticality of power by starting by restoring social democracy at all levels, company, branch, territory and inter-professional;
- Implement tax justice measures and in particular tax super profits, dividends and share buybacks;
- Finally establish equal pay and eradicate sexist and sexual violence;
- Establish the right to regularization for all foreign workers on the basis of a work certificate;
- Relocalize and transform our industry to meet social and environmental needs by protecting it from social, fiscal and environmental dumping;
- Create new rights to allow workers to anticipate environmental transformations and secure their jobs;
Our trade union organizations are calling on all workers, retirees, unemployed and precarious workers, and young people to make arrangements now to be able to vote on June 30 and July 7.
Committed to employee unity, our union organizations call on the entire world of work to raise their demands and collectively decide on forms of mobilization, including strikes.
