France CPE Riot Watch: First Job Contract Protests Grip French Cities
A protester throws a stone next to a burning car, during clashes with riot police, following a demonstration in Paris, France, against the ‘First Job Contract’, or CPE, Saturday, March 18, 2006. More than 500,000 students and workers marched in Paris and other French cities Saturday in the biggest show of anger yet at a jobs plan that has led to street violence and threatens to weaken the government.
BBC: Job protests grip French cities
Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through French towns and cities in protest at a new law making it easier to hire and fire young workers.
Unions said more than a million people were on the streets, from Marseille in the south to Lille in the north. The government said 500,000 took part.
Ministers say the law will reduce high youth unemployment, but opponents fear it will entrench job insecurity.
Protests earlier in the week ended in unrest, with hundreds arrested.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Paris.
In Toulouse, in the south-west, up to 33,000 people took to the streets while between 10,000 and 25,000 people demonstrated in Lyon.
Dijon, Marseille, Strasbourg and Bordeaux also saw large demonstrations.
So, what do the French want to do? They have a high unemployment problem especially with immigrant Islamic young people. Their government proposes economic/employment reforms to enable these folks to obtain gainful employment instead of rioting (remember last November) or living on welfare or both. Do the French LEFTIES want a socialist solution of redistribution?
Protesters are bitterly opposed to the new First Employment Contract (CPE), which allows employers to end job contracts for under-26s at any time during a two-year trial period without having to offer an explanation or give prior warning.
The government says it will encourage employers to hire young people but students fear it will erode job stability in a country where more than 20% of 18 to 25-year-olds are unemployed – more than twice the national average.
The demonstrations came after a series of mass protests by students in dozens of French universities, which have severely disrupted classes.
Flap thinks the French protest too much. Give the reforms a try and relieve the unemployment situation. But, is there another agenda here?
Are the French islamofascists and communists driving civil unrest in order to undermine the French government and society.
More than likely……
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Students hold a banner front of riot policemen that reads ‘State regressive, State repressive’ during a protest against CPE in Lille March 18, 2006. France braced for mass protests on Saturday against the new employment law as unions said more than one million people would march to increase pressure on the government to repeal the measure.
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