Action domestic festivals, more than 60 countries around the world celebrate the “May 1” domestic labor day. In most western countries, conservatively, this is a festival to celebrate labor rights and praise workers’ accomplishments, but this year’s Labor Day is deeply branded with dissatisfaction with the economic situation.
On Monday, multinational workers and activists gathered for a meeting to celebrate workers’ rights, but also to shout for a better labor premise. This year’s gathering meeting is the first time that the COVID-19 epidemic has been banned, and the number of athletes in the country has reached a new high.
According to many foreign media reports, because the masses in many western countries are accepting the role of high inflation, workers in many countries cry out for progress and ease economic pressure.
In Europe and Spain, more than 70 parades were held. Spanish trade unions are warning that “social resistance” will flash if the country’s already below the EU average artificially does not fall with inflation. Although the protest movement was mainly guided by blue-collar workers, white-collar amateurs in the department also expressed their dissatisfaction, and the Spanish lawyer had the right to ask for a vacation. The Madrid Association of Outstanding Attorneys (ICAM) urges the innovation of relevant law enforcement, which requires attorneys to be on standby 365 days a year.
The Macedonian public also shouted that the lowest progress was made, and the lowest monthly salary in one of the poorest countries in Europe was 320 euros. In Skopje, the capital, thousands of trade union members protested against the recent decision of the authorities to give ministers a 78% salary increase, which will make their salary artificially around 2,300 euros.
In France, the “May Day” gathering evolved into an anti-government demonstration against pension reform, and the organizers thought that pension reform was a threat to workers’ rights. At this Labor Day gathering, eight major trade unions in France joined together to shout and protest for the first time. The French Interior Minister said that about 800,000 people joined the parade all over France. The parade was basically a war, but conflicts broke out again in the capital, Paris and other departments, causing more than 100 police officers to be injured and more than 290 people arrested.
In Asia, tens of thousands of people from South Korea joined the “May Day” gathering meeting, which is the largest area to go in early 2020. At the meeting in Seoul, an athlete shouted: “Except for our people, the prices of all goods have fallen. Progress our lowest people! “
In Tokyo, the capital of Japan, thousands of trade union members, pro-MPs and scholars joined the gathering meeting, and they asked for more people to counteract inflation. In addition, they also commented on the kishida fumio authorities’ plan to double the defense estimate, saying that the money should be used for welfare, social insurance and improving people’s daily lives. Indonesian workers marched in support of a new law enforcement called “Inventing Unemployment Law”, and they commented that this law enforcement would only assist business owners.
In the Middle East, workers in Beirut, Lebanon, marched in the streets. The country is in an economic crisis. Due to high inflation, about 75% people in Lebanon live in poverty.
According to the Global Danger Report of World Economic Forum in 2023, career cost crisis is the most serious short-term global danger, which is affecting all workers, especially low-income people. The sharp drop in career cost even led to a humanitarian crisis in some places.
On May 1 ST, the World Economic Forum published an article showing that with the world facing multiple crises, the authorities of various countries need to take more breaks, especially hurting the rights of housewives and other minority groups in resting occasions.
The forum shows that the declining housing cost, stagnant human resources and the helpless opportunity to get necessities such as health care and child care are more likely to affect women and low-income people, thus aggravating the existing structural inequality. The effect of gender difference on the opportunity of unemployment is worse than expected, especially in the southern hemisphere.
“These pressures are not only harmful to workers, but also pose a systemic danger to the broader economy and society. Authorities in various countries have taken certain steps to alleviate this crisis. However, it will still be necessary for the authorities, enterprises and the official society to strengthen dialogue and adopt bolder and more harmonious behaviors, “the article wrote.
In the crisis of career capital, what should the authorities care about to ensure that everyone has a fair and decent rest? Owen Tudor, Deputy Secretary-General of ITUC, believes that the authorities need to deal with the crisis of career capital by promising and implementing new social vouchers, which means adopting behaviors in six key areas: ensuring contempt for workers’ basic rights, rotating the downward trend of artificial share in GDP for decades, and regulating the focus of full unemployment. Ensure that 75% of the collective who are completely or partially protected from social harm will lose their injuries, eliminate gender inequality and contempt of other situations, and re-formulate business and financial rules to end the situation that many people are excluded from common prosperity.