{"id":341597,"date":"2017-12-29T21:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macron-turns-frances-labor-decrees-on-auto-workers\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:33:46","slug":"macron-turns-frances-labor-decrees-on-auto-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macron-turns-frances-labor-decrees-on-auto-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron turns France\u2019s labor decrees on auto workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Macron turns France\u2019s labor decrees on auto workers<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    29 December 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Yesterday, automaker PSA Peugeot-Citro\u00ebn announced that it is preparing deregulated mass sackings, in the first use of French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s labor law decrees in a major industrial firm. Talks with the trade unions, whose approval for the mass sackings is required according to the Macron decrees, are to begin on January 9.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Europe\u2019s second-largest automaker is part of a relentless international assault on workers\u2019 jobs, working conditions and social rights. After the 2008 Wall Street crash and global crisis, as governments worldwide poured trillions of dollars into the coffers of the same banks whose speculation had caused the crisis, the French state paid billions of euros to bail out PSA and Renault. In return, the auto giants are sacking workers to funnel billions of euros more in wealth created by the working class into the pockets of the superrich.<\/p>\n<p>The policy spearheaded by Macron, who is now broadly viewed with contempt and distrust in France as the \u201cpresident of the rich,\u201d aims to throw the working class back decades. With PSA subsidiary Opel Vauxhall poised to cut 4,500 jobs in Germany alone, tens of thousands of PSA jobs across Europe are threatened. A decade after the Detroit auto bailout slashed the wages of newly-hired workers by half, the goal is to impose speed-up, increase flexibility of working times, and transition to a workforce largely made up of temporary workers, who in France are paid little over \u20ac9 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, the financial aristocracy is preparing a historic attack on the working class for 2018. Siemens is cutting 15,000 jobs in order to reap billions in profits, while GE has planned 12,000 job cuts. In Europe, governments are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/12\/29\/pers-d29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Macron turns France\u2019s labor decrees on auto workers 29 December 2017 Yesterday, automaker PSA Peugeot-Citro\u00ebn announced that it is preparing deregulated mass sackings, in the first use of French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s labor law decrees in a major industrial firm. Talks with the trade unions, whose approval for the mass sackings is required according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}