Fighting speeches on the day of work in Luxembourg

« The union front is what scares our opponents in patronage and politics – and that is exactly what it shows that it is the only right way, » said Nora Back, President of the Ogbl In your speech on May 1st in front of around a hundred unionists in Luxembourg city.

In her speech in the Neumünster Abbey, the President said that the OGBL and LCGB In their opaque speeches « for the first time in the face since our organizations were founded ».

May 1st of this year is a special one for both unions. Because since the scandal of October 8 of last year, they came together to form a front against the Ministry of Labor and the government.

Luc Frieden drops by the OGBL

On October 8, Minister of Labor Georges Mischo (CSV) had offset the two social partners when he suggested his planned changes to the collective contracts and later his liberalization of the Sunday work.

If the government is not looking for the dialogue with the unions and responding to them, it is also ready to « go to the extreme », that is, to explore the general strike, Nora Back continues. None other than Prime Minister Luc Frieden (CSV) for lunch. Vice Prime Minister Xavier Bettel wanted to Ukraine trip Have a look at LCGB.

In the meantime, the Christian Trade Union Confederation LCGB celebrated the day of work in front of around a thousand members, but in the thoughts of the union comrades in Luxembourg City.

The LCGB chairman Patrick Dury spoke of a « paradigm shift » that the CSV/DP government had done. This is obvious « when you see how the government acts against social policy from the unions ». Black and blue « slander » the unions, represent them as « backward » and as « Quantité Négligable », according to Dury, who accuses the government of being « dead graves from our social model ».

For June 28th at 11 a.m. in Luxembourg City, both unions jointly call up a nationwide demonstration to « defend the trade union rights and freedoms ».