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He is a lawyer like no other who travels far and wide in France to defend those who fight for their social rights. He acquired the nickname “the pet peeve of employers”…
Ralph Blindauer, 68, is an outstanding lawyer who has made the defense of working-class workers his specialty, his professional raison d’être, his daily fight. From Lyon to Angoulême, from Chalon-sur-Saône to Tourcoing, master Blindauer goes where “rogue bosses”, as he calls them, lay off or close factories without respecting the rules.
Over the years, he acquired the nickname of “bête noire of employers” and the director Stéphane Brizé even consulted him for his film In war (2018), with Vincent Lindon, Mélanie Rover and Jacques Borderie.
60 000 kilometers per year
For this document signed Aude Rouaux, Benjamine Jeunehomme and Gaël Pouvreau, the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.) went to meet Ralph Blindauer and his wife Sandrine, who assists him in his work.
During the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, the defender bought a motorhome to continue going from one court to another, while the hotels were closed. And the couple, who made this vehicle their roof and their mobile office, travel 60,000 kilometers a year, to the four corners of France, from one social conflict to another.
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