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VEND. 22, SAM. 23 & DIM. 24 SEPTEMBRE 2023 - N°6599 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID
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Editorial Strike Khalid BELYAZID
W HERE there are no laws, the law of the jungle applies. The minimum workforce is nothing more than a burden. Strikes can become frequent in times
wage, which is being raised at the end of this month, has had its own like ours, when inflation is squeezing wages and exacerbating demands, or when
law, and better still, an agreement for its evolution, since April 2022. the workforce is under threat, making mobilization of workers easier. In such
This is a plus, thanks to a voluntary agreement between the «social partners» that cases, strikes can be a tool of social construction; indeed, they form the basis of
is worthy of the most advanced countries. The problem is that the Government all the protections that seem obvious to us today. When they are anarchic, strikes
had undertaken to dust off the Labor Code and introduce a law on strikes. The can lead to bankruptcy, or at least to difficult reconstruction. They allow mistrust
Government, which has been repeatedly called upon to intervene, was supposed and hatred to develop between the troops and the bosses, who avoid recruiting
to put everything back into the legislative circuit before the end of the summer, new «enemies». In this climate of social distrust, employment will not grow.
but has avoided doing so, leaving the strike as a constitutional right with no Employers are only asking that this right be regulated, and that it be a last resort,
implementing rules. Of course, a strike is a rare phenomenon, but like an earth- after negotiation and notice, and that this right to strike no longer a means of sud-
quake, when it happens it is destructive. It can shake up even the most socially den and violent blackmail, a law of the jungle, left unregulated by a government
aware companies, based on a clash of egos between self-interested trade unionists made up of so many businessmen, who could themselves be devoured by the
and arrogant managers obsessed with the market or EBITDA, for whom the consequences of such a law of the jungle.o