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FRENCH trade unionists protested outside Renault’s factory in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi today as the car giant said it would shut the plant and cut 15,000 jobs worldwide, 4,600 of them in France.
Workers carried banners reading “No to Shutdown” and staged a protest walkout over the plans, which come just days after ministers revealed a scheme to bail out the automotive industry in return for a shift towards electric vehicles and keeping production in France.
Company chairman Jean-Dominique Sneard said “each cost cut has been weighed at length with employees in mind” and that there would be no sackings. The company was beginning talks with unions, he said.
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Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
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
