The ETUC supports French Trade unions in their struggle against the “first employment contract”

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As French trade unions have called for a national day of strikes on 20 March 2006, John Monks, secretary general of the ETUC said that the European Trade Union Confederation supports this struggle. (Réf. 06272)
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The ETUC warned the French government but also other governments tempted by an easing of the work code that “lack of job security and reduction of the work code is not the appropriate solution for reviving growth, improving competitiveness and creation jobs. On the contrary, this type of measures brings long-lasting social dumping in the EU, which is a prejudice for he future of Europe”. Furthermore, John Monks reminds that the “originality of the European social model is due to...

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