REPORT – Nearly 500 people marched in the streets of Grenoble to protest against the reform of Unemployment Insurance which is due to come into force on 1is July 2021. Government objective: achieve savings of 1 to 1.3 billion euros by tightening compensation rules and combating excessive recourse to short contracts. But its detractors fear that it will make temporary workers and the unemployed more precarious, already weakened by the health crisis.
“To draw money again from the most precarious people is not the right solution”, storm Lucas, unemployed for a few months. In his hand is a sign on which a cartoon character is hit by a hammer with the inscription “Reform”. Like him, nearly 500 people gathered at Place de Verdun in Grenoble, this Saturday April 10, to protest against the reform of Unemployment Insurance.
Nearly 500 people marched through the streets of Grenoble. © Sarah Krakovitch
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A gathering punctuated by the drums of the batucada. As if to better voice the anger of the demonstrators. “This reform is extremely serious”, tance Michel Szempruch, member of the movement essential crops in struggle.
Adopted by decree on March 30, this text must come into force on 1is July 2021. “Why make the victims of the crisis even more fragile?, wonders Michel Szempruch, also a member of the collective of cultural shows CGT Isère. For us it is a little incomprehensible. “
More difficult conditions of access to compensation
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