The activist and reformist association Liberté Chérie, very active in Nice and on the Côte d’Azur, goes much further by simply demanding that the right to strike be banned for all public servants.
Liberté Chérie advocates the adoption of the American system, which prohibits strikes by public servants. As early as 1905, American postal workers who went on strike were prosecuted under the charge of obstructing mail circulation! Following World War II, the prohibition became generalized, driven by President F. D. Roosevelt (a Democrat nonetheless), who considered “such action [the strike] implies that the state can be paralyzed by those who have sworn to serve and defend it, which is inconceivable and intolerable.”
For Liberté Chérie, public servants enjoy protected employment, making it unacceptable that they could be in a position to threaten the employment of others during strike movements that paralyze the community.
In France, it was the Dehaene ruling of July 7, 1950, that put an end to the notion that a strike in the public services is “more than a fault, a crime.”
Because the right to strike among public servants undermines the “service rendered to the public,” the association Liberté Chérie therefore demands its definitive repeal!
For more information:
Jean-Laurent TERRAZZONI – tel: 06.61.631.316
Website: Liberté Chérie Nice Côte d’Azur
Email: comite.nice@liberte-cherie.com
