The leader of LFI deputies Mathilde Panot invited the French this Friday to strike before and during the Olympic Games against a government “which only listens to the balance of power”.
“The right to strike is social democracy,” insisted the rebel on BFMTV/RMC, when questioned about the SNCF controllers’ strike.
Faced with “a government that listens to nothing and no one”, the elected representative from Val-de-Marne also encouraged workers to mobilize before and during the Paris Olympics which will take place from July 26 to August 11, “ if the balance of power is favorable to them.”
When “the government only hears the balance of power, well we must use the balance of power to the maximum,” she said.
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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said “the French know that striking is a right”, but “also that working is a duty”.
The executive “hears nothing else, neither the vote of the Assembly, nor the biggest social movement in 50 years (
against pension reform
), nor all the strikes which are multiplying for the increase in wages », lamented Mathilde Panot.
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Worse still, according to her, it goes “the opposite of all the social progress that has been taking place in our country for years and which was won by the strike.
» While the SNCF controllers' strike is in full swing this weekend of holidaymakers, the right demanded this week a reform to better regulate the right to strike, with some fearing in particular "blackmail of the unions with the executive” before the Olympics.