France is one of 69 countries that carried out arrests and detentions classified as “arbitrary” between April 2022 and March 2023.
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Posted on 6/30/2023 10:12 AM Updated on 6/30/2023 10:46 AM
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Police officers intervene during a demonstration against pension reforms in Paris, March 28, 2023. (REMI BREMOND / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) accused France of “police brutality” and “blind arrests” during demonstrations against pension reforms on Friday 30 June. This makes France one of the 69 states that the world’s largest trade union federation examined in its annual report that carried out arrests and detentions between April 2022 and March 2023 that were considered “arbitrary”. The French unions were “completely ignored” during the protest movement against the postponement of the retirement age to 64, also laments Luc Triangle, President of the CSI.
The organization accuses France of “repeated” violations of workers’ rights. However, the country remains ranked relatively high, at level 2 on a scale from 1 (‘sporadic violations’) to 5+ (‘no guaranteed rights due to deteriorating rule of law’). In the 2023 edition of its report, the ITUC expressed alarm at “record numbers” of violations of core workers’ rights around the world, where the federation claims to have 338 affiliates in 168 countries and territories.
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