After a peaceful occupation of the premises of the Leroy Merlin brand a week ago in Ajaccio, Nation continues its field actions on the theme of employment. This Saturday, October 19, activists of the independence party walled up the entrance to the premises of France Work (formerly Pôle emploi) located in the southern districts of Bastia.
A symbolic action (the agency is closed on Saturday) by which they intend to denounce “the employment policy carried out in Corsica by France Travail, a real institutional relay for the decorisation of jobs”.
In a text read by his spokesperson, Jean-Philippe Antolini, Nazione denies wanting “oppose workers based on their origin”, but emphasizes that “in recruitment procedures, France Travail orchestrates the decorization of jobs and thereby promotes settlement colonization which does not speak its name.”
800 million Chinese…
A “policy” which would have the effect of profoundly modifying the island population and, with it, the nature of social relations. “The spouses of gendarmes or police officers arriving here easily find employment, as do other civil servants attracted by the sun, the beaches and – a new development – by the security in our streets, assures the party. The Corsican language is thus banned in exchanges and we see Corsicans invited to spell their surname by people who are completely closed to our culture.”
For the separatists, these upheavals have reached unacceptable proportions. “Thirty years ago, there were 250,000 inhabitants on the island, continues Jean-Philippe Antolini. Today there are 350,000 of us. This represents a population increase of 42%, exclusively linked to migratory flows. Compared to the population of China, this would correspond to a growth of 800 million inhabitants. No people can accept this.”
However, assure Nazione activists, concrete solutions exist. Among the examples cited, a company agreement signed in 2019 at Chemins de Fer de la Corse which promotes the hiring of Corsophone employees. One more reason to claim that “the harmful and discriminatory policy carried out by state services and by certain business leaders must cease, and that hiring priority for Corsicans be put in place.”
A demand that the party intends to continue to defend in the coming days, if necessary “by creating the conditions for mobilization against colonial practices, whatever the economic sectors concerned, the associated interests and the recruitment circuits at work.”
Contacted by us, the regional management of France Travail, for its part, did not wish to make any comment.
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