U.S. unionists protest to support French strikers (fwd)

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Subject: U.S. unionists protest to support French strikers

U.S. unionists protest to support French strikers
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    ATLANTA, Dec 15 (Reuter) - Textile workers held a noisy
protest at the French consulate in Atlanta on Friday in support
of the strike that has crippled France for more than three
weeks.
    Members of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile
Employees (UNITE) chanted and yelled in a cramped outer office
before a French official emerged and agreed to pass their
message on to the French government.
    The official said it was the first such demonstration in the
United States since strikes began last month in France to
protest the conservative government's welfare reforms.
    ``The French workers are fighting for what is decent in this
world. They deserve to have their demands met,'' Bruce Raynor,
an executive vice president of UNITE, told the official.
    Raynor said American workers were in solidarity with French
unions because welfare reforms in France were similar to
Republican-led cuts in U.S. social programmes. Both countries
are seeing efforts by big business to roll back the living
standards of the people, he said.
    UNITE said it planned protests in other cities but a union
spokeswoman did not know when the next demonstration would take
place. The spokeswoman said UNITE has 355,000 members
nationwide.
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Reut15:07 12-15-95

Reuter N:Copyright 1995, Reuters News Service





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