FRANCE: Strikes continue against labour law

Millions of students and workers marched on March 28 against the First Employment Contract (CPE) law, which allows employers to sack workers aged under 26 years without reason within the first two years of their job. On March 30, France's Constitutional Court approved the law and France's right-wing government has refused to withdraw it. Unions and student organisations have called for another one-day strike on April 4. A joint declaration issued on March 29 by student and trade unions demanded the immediate withdrawal of the CPE and the holding of 'immediate negotiations on employment, social insecurity, the terms of access to jobs, education, and the future of young people'.

From Green Left Weekly, April 5, 2006.

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From GLW issue 663