Forwarded message: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 16 11:47 PDT 1996 X-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 18:05:27 +0100 Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: LabourNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: French workers fight spending cuts Comments: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list LABOR-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1308 French workers fight spending cuts (from "The European", 12-18 September) Naval armaments workers at Brest blockaded the port on 10 September in an early skirmish of what promises to be an autumn or discontent in France. With up to 60,000 jobs expected to be axed under military cuts the two main unions, CGT and Force Ouvriere, are digging in against reduced government spending. Civil servants voted for a national strike next month in protest at job cuts of up to 7,000 as teachers and university lecturers proposed to protest in Paris on 30 September over 2,300 job losses next year. Union leaders at state-owned railway SNCF were meeting to discuss the latest government restructuring programme, with a repeat of last autumn's public- transport stoppage a possibility. Air France - together with its domestic partner Air France Europe - is facing delicate talks with unions over proposals for the loss-making airline. Strike action also threatens nationalised banks after unions called for "mobilisation", while Electricite de France and French Telecom expected unrest over job cuts and possible privatisation. Charles Masters, Paris For detailed information, speeches etc concerning the mass strikes and demonstrations by French workers at the end of last year. See: http://www.imaginet.fr/SDC/
