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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not know whether I shall find anything much to add to Mrs Gillig’s superb speech. I believe this report will not allow me to move towards workers at Metaleurop, Alstom, France Télécom or many other companies, who are currently clearly threatened by mass restructuring and harsh, unacceptable mass redundancies, often due, furthermore, to shareholders’ completely uncontrolled actions.
In this context, the endless calls for social dialogue are a rather surreal figure of speech. The commitment we must make today is very clearly to a policy of democratisation within companies that breaks with this unacceptable way in which employees are currently hired and fired, given intermittent work or made redundant. I believe that the social situation, which is further exacerbated by the economic recession, is currently creating a despicable climate to which this report is certainly not capable of responding in a credible way.
Must we, in this kind of situation, forbid ourselves from investigating, from taking a closer look – I am well aware that it is rather unusual to talk about this in this House – at certain experiments in reducing working hours, negotiated experiments which create jobs, which have considerably improved the economic performance of certain large companies, which have considerably improved the quality of social relations in the workplace and the quality of work? Must we prevent ourselves from taking a look at these experiments and drawing the conclusions that, in my opinion, are generally extremely interesting?
Must we stop ourselves examining the capacity to develop many activities that are useful socially or for environmental management and whose potential we suspect, but which, I regret to say, receive very little support or recognition. I believe it would be far more interesting to show imagination, rather than to keep trotting out old-fashioned ideas that we have heard all too often. We must start to show an interest in this kind of debate and initiative."@en1
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