Tag: Social issues
public broadcasting, including RFI, on strike against a controversial reform project
Thursday and Friday, the entire public broadcasting sector is called to strike. Objective: to fight the reform of public broadcasting, which must be examined at first reading on Thursday and…
soon-to-be employed sex workers
In Belgium, this will soon be a reality: male and female prostitutes will be employed and brothel owners will operate completely legally. Two years after decriminalizing sex work, the Belgian…
Against transphobia, more than 800 groups and personalities call for demonstrations in France
More than 800 collectives and political, artistic, activist and intellectual personalities are calling to demonstrate this Sunday, May 5 in France to denounce the “offensive” underway, according to them, against…
Housing bill: “It’s the death of social housing”
The Minister of Housing unveils his bill relating to the “development of the supply of affordable housing” in the Council of Ministers. The text aims to provide the first responses…
various demands for unions, activists side by side
In France, May 1, 2023 was marked by the movement against pension reform. This year, the CGT has recorded more than 250 processions throughout France. No single slogan, but the…
Olympic Games 2024: “we are asking for compensation bonuses for the constraints”, says Céline Verzeletti (CGT)
Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT, is today, May 1, World Workers’ Day, the big guest on RFI’s morning show. Labor legislation, social discontent, risks of strikes and all-out…
after the contestation of the pension reform, what remains of the union?
A year ago, on May 1, 2023, France was still affected by a very large protest movement against pension reform. For weeks, the different employee representative organizations have called for…
According to Oxfam, CAC 40 bosses earn on average 130 times more than their employees
In France, the NGO Oxfam denounces the pay gaps between CAC 40 managers and their employees. A gap has widened significantly since 2019, regrets this NGO in a report. 1…
Departure of French people of Muslim faith, “stigmatized through an atmospheric Islamophobia”
It is a phenomenon rarely discussed: the exile of French people of Muslim faith, discriminated against in the job market and stigmatized for their religion, their names or their origins,…
President Javier Milei assures that he does not intend to close public universities
Argentine President Javier Milei assured, Sunday April 28, that he had no intention of closing public universities, five days after the largest demonstration in the sector against his government’s austerity…