“We deserve better - aren't we the future of France?”
Aurelie Silan
Student
Paris saw the biggest of Saturday’s marches. Unions said some 1.5 million took part. The French government wants to let firms offer job contracts to people under 26 which would make it easier for them to be fired at short notice. Anenne, a protester in Paris, said: "We are students and later we want to have jobs, but we see that the situation is getting worse in France on all fronts. "We have to come here and make ourselves heard. The vote is not enough; they approve laws without even asking us our opinion. It's not right." Another protester said he was marching because "the precarious situation of the youth will have an impact on our retirement". "We defend their cause and our cause at the same time."
José Sócrates, the Portuguese PM, announced before he was elected that he aimed to create 5,000 traineeships for young professionals. What are professional traineeships? Job contracts to young people which offer no job security. More: they are usually underpaid. Why was everyone so pleased with his proposal? Why didn’t we go there and "make ourselves heard"? Speaking against myself: where were the Aurelies and Anennes of Portugal at that time?
2 comments:
a mim ninguém me cala, vou já imigrar
jgb, de acordo com o incentivo as pequenas empresas mas continuo a achar que, da perspectiva dos trabalhadores e jovens licenciados, isso resulta em precariedade laboral. As tais pequenas empresas tornam-se "estagio-dependentes" e segue-se uma never ending story de meter estagiarios ano apos ano. Quem perde com isso? No meu ponto de vista nao so os trabalhadores, mas tambem as proprias empresas que nao crescem com forma propria e consistencia.
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