PERRI wrote that purchasing power was at the center of Saturday's demonstrations. He noted that in the 1990s, the French left and trade unions had advocated for a society of leisure and free time, which he believed favored a service economy producing minimum wage workers, in contrast to industrial and manufacturing economies. He also claimed that Aubry, Strauss-Kahn, Jospin, and Voynet were mistaken in talking about the "end of work," arguing that the rest of the world was working more. To increase income, he advocated for a 39-hour workweek, four weeks of paid vacation, two worked public holidays, and a retirement age indexed to life expectancy. He considered the other measures to be secondary. The images were credited to Le Point and Le Républicain Lorrain. #PouvoirDAchat #Travail #Économie (translated)




