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FRANCE’S president and prime minister sent conflicting messages to workers over hated labour “reforms” yesterday as rail strikes began.
PM Manuel Valls’s Socialist Party government asked the largest trade union federation CGT to propose solutions to the battle over the El Khomri law, which will see working time limits raised from 35 to 46 hours a week and erode other workers’ rights.
Labour Minister Myriam El Khomri said yesterday she was waiting to hear from CGT general secretary Philippe Martinez after hearing he had called for fresh talks.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
Meanwhile, over 110 human rights organisations and trade unions demand the EU immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel over its ‘egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians’