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Appendix: The 42 demands of the gilets jaunes, posted online on 28 November 2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2022

Charles Devellennes
Affiliation:
University of Kent
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  • (1) Zero homeless: URGENT.

  • (2) Income tax more progressive (more tax brackets).

  • (3) SMIC [minimum wage] set at €1,300 net.

  • (4) Promote small businesses in villages and town centres. (Stop the construction of large commercial areas around big cities that kill small business.) More free parking in city centres.

  • (5) Major Insulation Plan for housing (to make ecological and financial savings for households).

  • (6) That BIG businesses (McDonald’s, Google, Amazon, Carrefour …) pay BIG and that small ones (artisans, small and medium-sized businesses) pay small.

  • (7) The same system of social security for all (including artisans and the self-employed). End of the RSI [self-employed workers’ social security scheme, since abolished].

  • (8) The pension system must remain in solidarity and therefore socialized (no points-based retirement).

  • (9) End to the tax increase on fuel.

  • (10) No pension below €1,200.

  • (11) Every elected representative to have the right to receive the median salary. Their transport costs to be monitored and reimbursed if they can be justified. Right to restaurant and holiday discounts.

  • (12) The wages of all French people, as well as pensions and allowances, must be indexed to inflation.

  • (13) Protect French industry: prohibit relocation. Protecting our industry is protecting our skills and jobs.

  • (14) End to work postings abroad. It is wrong that a person who works on French territory does not benefit from the salary and the same rights as in France. Anyone authorized to work on French territory must have equal standing with a French citizen, and their employer must make the same contributions as a French employer.

  • (15) For job security: further limit the number of fixed-term contracts for large companies. We want more permanent contracts.

  • (16) End to the CICE [Competitiveness and Employment Tax Credit]. This money to be used to launch a French industry making hydrogenpowered cars (which are truly ecological, unlike the electric car).

  • (17) End to austerity. That we cease to repay the debt interest that is declared illegitimate and we start to repay the debt itself, without taking the money from the poor and the poorest but by going after the €80 billion lost through tax evasion.

  • (18) That the causes of forced migration are treated.

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Publisher: Bristol University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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