the CGT calls for “civil disobedience” and “large-scale actions”

2023-12-21 13:02:02

Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT. Francois BOUCHON / Le Figaro

For the moment, the radical center has not been joined by the other trade union organizations.

Opposition to the immigration law is growing. This Thursday, the CGT called for “civil disobedience”, by the voice of its general secretary Sophie Binet, who spoke at the microphone of RMC. “The CGT calls for civil disobedience and an increase in resistance actions against this law” Who “deeply calls into question all our republican principles» et «rolls out the red carpet on the far right“, she argued. Concretely, the radical organization wishes to organize in the coming weeks “large-scale initiatives to allow those who do not recognize themselves in this penalized France to show their determination to uphold the values ​​of solidarity», added the manager.

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The number one has surveyed other union centers in recent days in the hope of recreating a united front against the immigration law, like that which prevailed during the pension reform. Not surprisingly, the CGT is the organization which has most regretted the gradual erosion of the inter-union. The immigration law could have been a trigger. Many unions have taken sides in recent days against the law. In a press release criticized a text which “flouts the republican principles of equality and solidarity», «It introduces a form of national priority contrary to our republican principles“. Same tone at the CFDT. “The dikes built against far-right nationalism were largely breached by the words and expressions spoken in the assemblies during the debate period. This December 19, they collapsed», asserts the reformist central.

“Political and moral shipwreck”

However, the reconstitution of the inter-union remains for the moment a very hypothetical project. No representative union seems ready to join the actions proposed by the CGT. On the FO side, the idea is not to go beyond “of a joint press release». «Part of the text is about work where one would be legitimate. But there are also subjects that go beyond the union framework“, estimates for his part an executive of a reformist union, who prefers “stay away from politics“. The new law establishes in its article 19 a period of five years for non-European foreigners in a legal situation who do not work, and of thirty months for others, before being eligible for benefits such as family allowances or the Allowance. Personalized Autonomy (APA), paid to people aged 60 or over who are losing their autonomy.

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The 32 departments led by the left, including Paris, announced Wednesday that they will not apply the tightening conditions for payment of the APA to foreigners provided for by the new immigration law. “This is what you have to do everywhere“, launched Sophie Binet, calling for “put solidarity first“. According to her, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron “getting stuck in a political and moral shipwreck». «The Titanic had started to sink with the pension reform, here we hit rock bottom with this law which embodies the world of money and rancid and xenophobic far-right ideology“, did she say.

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