Unions electrified by the publication of a “brulot” guide on social democracy co-signed by the economist Gilbert This | EUROtoday

Relations between the president of the Retirement Orientation Council (COR), Gilbert Cet, and the unions had been already removed from idyllic. They have turned bitter because the publication, on January 21, of an essay of which the economist is among the co-signatories with Guy Groux, sociologist, and Richard Robert, editorial director of the net journal Telos. Titled Saving social democracy (Calmann-Lévy, 220 pages, 19.50 euros), the guide in query lectures worker organizations copiously, accusing them, amongst different issues, of giving in to “facilities of protest and above-ground discourse”. Which the events hardly recognize.

The unions see purple when studying sure suggestions defended by the three authors, one in all them geared toward proscribing the train of the appropriate to strike. Such turmoil is a supply of embarrassment for the chief as a result of it impacts the COR, a physique that Mr. This chairs and on which employees’ representatives sit.

The work on the origin of the controversy makes an uncompromising statement: social democracy has “shipwreck”the crews on board the ship discovering it more and more tough to seal formidable pacts. At the corporate stage, the quantitative outcomes may have appeared flattering, with a transparent improve within the variety of agreements beneath the impact of the Macron orders of September 2017 which sought to stimulate collective bargaining as shut as doable to the locations of manufacturing. But only a few compromises discovered include “social innovations”in keeping with MM. This, Groux and Robert.

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