Immigration law: 45 unions and associations challenge Emmanuel Macron, the CGT calls for “civil disobedience”

Towards the beginning of a balance of power against the immigration law? This Thursday, two days after the adoption of the toughened bill by a joint committee of parliament, the CFDT, the CGT, FO, the FSU, Solidaires and the Unsa ” sentenced “ the vote on the immigration law. “The priority must be equal rights, particularly social rights, the regularization of all undocumented workers and solidarity with migrants”, write the unions, in a joint declaration. These centrals ask the President of the Republic, “solemnly” of “not to promulgate”the text of the law.

The evening before, Wednesday December 20, unions and associations met at the Paris Labor Exchange. In a joint declaration, this Thursday evening, forty-five of them, including Attac, Cimade, CFDT, CGT le Mrap, LDH and SOS racism hear “continue this mobilization with all the forces of society which are already expressed in local communities, universities, businesses and throughout civil society”. They meet on January 11 for a progress update, calling on Emmanuel Macron to “stay the promulgation of the law”.

In a press release this Thursday, the CGT calls for mobilization and civil disobedience “against the law of shame”. Citing in particular the principles of national preference on access to family and housing allowances, “the content of this text thus takes up the main proposals of the National Rally and calls into question our republican principles”notes the document.

“The Titanic had started to sink with the pension reform”

Thursday morning, on RMC, Sophie Binet called for “multiplication of resistance actions” against a text which “roll out the red carpet for the far right. » “The Titanic had started to sink with the pension reform, now we are hitting rock bottom with this law which embodies the world of money and rancid and xenophobic far-right ideology,” continued the general secretary of the CGT .

In addition, the Montreuil plant, which has mobilized more than 500 undocumented workers since mid-October, is demanding their regularization.

“Thanks to this strike, they forced their employers to give them all the proof of their work but are still not regularized,” criticizes the CGT press release. “Contrary to what the government claims, this law in no way facilitates regularization through work”concludes the text.