Recently, French President Macron signed a controversial pension reform bill, which triggered a fierce strike in the country.In addition to being dissatisfied with the new policy of extended retirement age, what makes the public even more angry is that the government has forcibly passed the reform bill in the parliament without voting by the National Assembly.This is even more unbearable for French people who have always advocated democracy, and even the French who build a highway to hold anti -global warming demonstrations.Therefore, the Trade Union called on the International Labor Day on May 1 to hold a national protest demonstration again to show the strength and threatened to compromise with the government before that.

Remember that I was outside the window of the dormitory more than 40 years ago, and for the first time, I saw the Paris to celebrate the Labor Day parade.At that time, in the lively and lively, in addition to knocking on the large trash cans on the roadside, it was generally peaceful, and there was a "festival" atmosphere.Once upon a time, it was difficult to see or hear the "peace" demonstration in Europe and the United States.Regardless of big things, the demonstrations are mostly accepted by violence and destroying.

The Labor Day originated at the end of the 19th century, and a large -scale demonstration riots occurred in Chicago workers in order to win 8 hours of daily work.The riots led to the international conference later in Paris. Starting from 1890, it was the International Labor Day on May 1st each year.

With the advancement of the times, science and technology, productivity, and capital economy, the concept of "daily work time limit" has also changed a lot.Now European and American countries are generally limited by 40 hours per week, and work overtime is calculated.Recently, Europe and the United Kingdom have begun to implement the four -day work system of 36 hours per week.Some Chinese companies implement the so -called 996 system every Saturday from 9 am to 9 pm every day.South Korea has just reduced the weekly (consecutive overtime) working hours in 2018 to 52 hours, but now there are sound requirements to implement 69 hours per week.It seems that to measure the rights and benefits of workers by working hours alone, it is simplified to simplify the problem.

In terms of a sound labor policy, in addition to the upper limit of weekly working hours, there should be problems with other workers' rights and benefits.For example, reasonable wages, working environment, rest and timeout work, holidays and paid holidays, health and medical insurance, delayed benefits, even retirement arrangements and pension issues.Even if it is the same industry or enterprise, due to the different operations, profitability and employee welfare of various companies, there will be a lot of benefits.Therefore, it is necessary to legislate to protect some basic rights and interests of the workers, so that workers will not be excessively exploited.

In the current capitalist economic system, the labor and the capital are both opposing extremes of interests.Because the two sides do not trust each other, friction conflicts often occur, especially when the economic downturn.In fact, the situation is sometimes a bit contradictory. From time to time, the news reports that a large -scale strike has occurred in somewhere and how much economic losses have reached.In order to get better treatment, the workers' strikes lost their income because of the strike of the workers.If the loss caused by the strike is too large and the company will fail, the workers will be unemployed, and the result will be a dual infusion situation.Conversely, if the capital can estimate the profit that will be lost due to the strike of the workers, and returns it to the workers in the form of welfare, and the workers continue to make money for the capital. Isn't it a win -win situation?

In any negotiations, a neutral third party that is worthy of the trust of both parties can be discussed smoothly and quickly.This third party is best to have binding power and power in the future treaty, which is more effective.

If the trade union representing the workers is trusted by the workers, the members of the capital's consortium are also focused on the overall situation and economic stability. The neutral third party will easily analyze the profit from the two sides from the perspective of outsiders, and know the righteousness to achieve a win -win situation.

The best situation is that the two sides can also have the exchange of advances and retreating, and they will not be reduced to the point where they must resort to strike demonstrations.

Under the circumstances of a reputable government, perhaps the three parties of labor, funding, and politics are the best combination of problems.

The significance of the

May Day International Labor Day is to remind the vulnerability of labor relations and the importance that labor and capital agreements should be resolved with peaceful means.It should not be politicized or in order to put pressure on a certain side, but to participate in other unrelated controversial issues.Celebrating or marching should also cover all walks of life to reflect the entire labor environment, which can be fair and meaningful for the labor public.

The author is an electronic engineer