Business Ethics: Moral and ethical leadership implications of the French rail strike

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The problem concerns special pension regulations for the French workers in the rail and energy sectors. It started in 1995, when the former French president Jacques Chirac tried to abolish special regulations when he came to power. Because of the transfer of power between Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, the new French president has brought the problem on the table. The project is to conduct a wide range of reforms. In this way, the conclusion appears to be the most important challenge of President Sarkozy's reform package. To simplify the situation, the reform still concerns the end of the retirement privileges. The aim is to realize economies of scale for the government, but the project still faces the French Unions of Workers (CFDT and CGT). The reform concerns no more than 500,000 workers mainly in the rail and energy sectors. The main ethical problem to underline is the following; in this case, who is able to judge that rail and energy workers have to retire earlier? Who is fair to know if they face more difficulties in their work than the other workers?

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[...] The fight could take a very diversified as an assembly of personal consultation, a delegation, a petition or a strike. Its aim is to contribute to the welfare of all employees, convergence of interests and struggles for union solidarity and social achievements. Today, the CGT represents more than 700000 unionized contributing to social improvement. Information from the official website www.cgt.fr 2 Presentation of the CFDT It is a Confederate unionism which brings together trade unions opened to all workers-resolved with mutual respect for their personal beliefs, philosophical, moral or religious-to defend their common interests and to fight to establish a democratic society of free and responsible. [...]

[...] These trade unions voted on Thursday to extend this 24 hours transport strike. Workers from several rail unions voted to keep up the strike until at least Friday 19th of October. According to an article by James Mackenzie, published on the Reuter, Rail unions said they had sent a letter to the government, seeking a meeting on Friday 19th October to lay the groundwork for further talks, but they said they were still not ready to hold direct negotiations on the substance of the dispute. [...]

[...] I think most of them will. Although you disagree on the principle, it is easier to understand the movement when it is replaced into the context. In the case of the rail and energy sector strike, the fact that you can put pressure on the environment to keep your privileges is understandable. From my point of view, I disagree with the striker but I understand the fact that the use the blockage to put pressure on the government and on their company Ministers' role Another leadership implication in this conflict is the role of the ministers. [...]

[...] Business Ethics: Moral and ethical leadership implications of the French rail strike I. Definitions 2 A. Right to strike 2 B. The minimum service 3 II. Presentation 3 A. The reform 3 B. The situation 4 III. The stakeholders 4 A. The government 5 B. The Unions Presentation of the CGT Presentation of the CFDT Role of these unions in the strike 6 C. [...]

[...] The project appears to be normal because it aims to end the privilege under which these workers can retire two and a half years earlier than the rest of the population. The moral implication 1 Working hours There is no discussion about the fact that railway employees work on Sunday and holidays but we must not forget that in the private sector, such as hotel restaurants, amusement parks . People work on Sundays and holidays and they do not have the safety of the job. [...]