Category: France

Passenger transport workers in all countries are among those who have been directly confronted with the serious social and health situation related to the pandemic and its management by capitalists and the governments that serve them. In many parts of the world, this second half of the year is marked by strong antisocial attacks. Workers in the metro, and more broadly in public passenger transport, are targeted by such capitalist attacks in several countries. Collective movements, rallies and strikes are taking place.

The European Regional Office of WFTU expresses its class solidarity with the demonstration of the French working class which will take place on the 17th of October in Paris with the Unions members of WFTU in the frontline.

PAME, a member of the WFTU, which represents the class union movement in Greece, expresses its solidarity with the unions and the workers of France for their strike on September 17. In France as well as in Greece, the governments managed the pandemic for the interests of the big business groups and did not take measures for the health of the people like for the public health system that has been degraded for years, the public transport etc. At the same time that they are giving new gifts to the…

Accelerated liberalization of the country and the world of work forced to pay for the crisis… In order to counter the strategy of “shock therapy”, to construct a new model and hope, Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, calls for the widest possible mobilization. For “unity in action”. L’Humanité, Thursday, 28th May 2020 Fabien Roussel has gone back to the factory. On 25th May he was at Renault in Choisy-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne), in order to denounce the site closures planned by the manufacturer and propose another future for the industry.…

The HOTOUR Europe organization of tourism sector, member of the WFTU, expresses its solidarity with the French workers and our support to CGT commerce and services for their strike on April 8. The people who are working during the COVID-19 pandemic are constantly endangering their lives and the lives of the people they meet while exercising their work, since no real safety measures have been taken.

PAME, which represents the class unions of Greece, a member of the WFTU, expresses its Solidarity and support to CGT Commerce et Services of France and all workers of Commerce in France for their strike action on April 8. The strike called “Strike to Save Lives” is called to protect the Health and the lives of the workers in Commerce, who since the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19, are working non-stop without any measures of protection.

After being received by the Prime Minister in the morning, the leaders of the PCF broke new ground this Thursday with a press conference by videoconference: a first. The opportunity for the national secretary Fabien Roussel to present his party’s proposals in this period of crisis, divided into six chapters (available on pcf.fr) and shared with the whole of the forces of the trade unions, political groups and associations. “In the short and medium term, the MP for the Nord French department specified, the priority is to respond to the…

PAME, representing Greece’s class trade union movement, expresses its solidarity with Amazon’s workers in France who went on strike against the employer’s demand to work in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their demands are perfectly fair and employees cannot sacrifice their health for the benefit of employers