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While the government prepares a further tightening of the rules, those without jobs encountered at the House of the Unemployed, which offers them warmth and comfort, share their thoughts and their difficulties.
“All rights are being taken away from us. We contribute, we work but we can’t even take a break anymore. plagues Jean-Pierre under his American basketball cap. This 55-year-old temporary worker rushed into the small apartment transformed into offices, on the ground floor of a public housing building which houses the Center for the Unemployed, to collect some mail. Like this large hurried stake, more than 500 people without a stable home are domiciled in this small residence in the Rangueil district of Toulouse, explains a 70-year-old retired volunteer behind the counter.
Jean-Pierre says he learned of the new turn of the screw targeting job seekers on BFMTV. “He is young Attal, but he should come and discuss it with us here rather than having a camera follow him everywhere. Already when Pôle Emploi became France Travail, it changed nothing at all. We are treated like cows to express milk. If this continues, we will soon have to pay the bosses to find a job. They should rather hit the bosses’ coffers to fix their stupidity, they’re the ones who have the money.” estimates the temporary worker as he rushes towards the metro station to avoid the threatening rain.
“Wave of anger in the face”
Stéphane, a tattooed forty-something, is even more expeditious. “It’s
