It is necessary “to increase wages, by going to take profits”, affirmed this Wednesday on franceinfo, Nathalie Arthaud, Lutte Ouvrière candidate for the presidential election.
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The Lutte Ouvrière presidential candidate reacted to the government’s introduction of an inflation allowance to cope with the explosion in fuel prices. For Nathalie Arthaud, guest of France Inter this Wednesday, “what is needed is 300, 400, 500 euros more each month on the payslips; these 100 euros [promis par Jean Castex], it’s alms “.
The day after Jean Castex’s announcement, Nathalie Arthaud says she was in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) alongside Michelin employees. “The reaction was unanimous: it is a provocation “, assures the candidate of the extreme left.
“What is crazy today is that there are workers (…) who work hard from morning to night and who cannot live on their wages”
Nathalie Arthaud, LO presidential candidateat France Inter
What to do for her is “to increase wages, by going to take on the profits. We must pay them on the profits which have exploded”.
Nathalie Arthaud recalls “We are coming out of two years of pandemic which worsened an economic crisis. How do we get out of it?”, she wonders. “With billionaires who have seen their fortunes increase by 40%, adds the LO candidate, With soaring stock prices and great fortunes which have never been so important, we must go and take these profits. Tout that it is a question of combat: it will be necessary to impose them, these salary increases “, she emphasizes.
For the candidate of Lutte Ouvrière, if the electorate of the left is “disgusted” and “disoriented”, it’s because of bankruptcy “from the left to the government” who is “transformed into a doormat of capital”. “They lost their electorate because each time they governed (…) they turned into a doormat of big capital, of the bourgeoisie”, denounces Nathalie Arthaud.