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Some 500 people attend meeting of Guadeloupe protest movement
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| Published on Monday, June 29, 2009 | Email To Friend Print Version
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POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AFP) -- On Friday evening, approximately 500 people attended a meeting of the LKP protest movement in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, which, with a demonstration planned for Saturday in the same city, constituted the focal point of the “week of mobilization” issued by the collective.
All the speakers, who spoke in Creole for more than three hours, castigated the “relentless colonialism”, according to them, of the speech made in the afternoon by French president Nicolas Sarkozy at a meeting of the general overseas congress in Petit-Bourg.
“All the elected officials, inhabitants of Guadeloupe became sarkozystes,” claimed a national trade unionist, who had beforehand pointed out that “national employers” adhere to the LKP in reproaching the president’s speech.
Elie Domota, the principal spokesperson of the LKP and general secretary of trade-union UGTG, did not speak on Friday evening. He had taken part in the course of the day, during Sarkozy’s visit to the island, with a “meeting of the trade unions anti-colonialists” of the French departments of the Americas, with counterparts from Martinique and from French Guiana.
The “week of mobilization” called for by the LKP consisted only of the picketing of fewer than ten service stations, the occupation for a few hours of a building, and the deployment of trades union representatives to reinforce the strike pickets of ten companies affected by a claim for “the implementation of the Bino agreement”.
This agreement envisages the taking over by the companies, in three years, of the 200 euros in wages currently financed partially by the State (100 euros) and the communities (50 euros). The agreement was extended to all local companies by the Minister for Labour without the “clause of applicable convertibility” in three years. | | | | Reads : 685 | | | |
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