May Day

It is a time of high emotion for participants and their causes, and Sunday's May Day marches were no different with police at the ready as street demonstrations ...

Considered pro-Russian, Radev went on to say it was a “patriotic duty” not to allow Bulgaria to become involved in the Ukraine war. May Day marches in Cuba are rife with symbolism, a celebration of the 63-year-old Cuban revolution and a government-led rebuke of the Cold War-era embargo imposed on the island by the US. Respect the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine!” “I call on the Russian president: Let the weapons be silent! We do not want interference of any kind,” said Juana Garcia, a worker with the Cuban Institute for Philosophy, as she participated in Sunday’s celebrations. All are pressing Macron for policies that put the people first and condemning his plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65. Many Chinese marked a quiet May Day this year as the government’s “zero-COVID” approach has restricted travel and enforced lockdowns in multiple cities. The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party was forced to call off its May Day rally in view of the ongoing protests. She was replaced by her National Rally party Interim President Jordan Bardella, who said Le Pen was preparing for forthcoming legislative elections. Their windows were broken and garbage bins set on fire. Istanbul governor’s office said that police detained 164 people for demonstrating without permits and resisting police at the square. Millions remain restricted to their buildings or compounds in Shanghai, China’s largest city, under a lockdown that has only slightly eased.

Unions and political rivals join protesters fired up by unpopular pensions reform plans.

Citizens and trade unions in cities around Europe were taking to the streets on Sunday for May Day marches, and to put out protest messages to their ...

Le Pen was defeated by Macron in last Sunday’s runoff of the presidential election, and plans to campaign to keep her seat as a lawmaker. In Italy, after a two-year pandemic lull, an outdoor mega-concert was set for Rome with rallies and protests in cities across the country. May Day is a time of high emotion for participants and their causes, with police on the ready.

ATHENS: Metro trains ground to a halt and ships were docked in ports as thousands of workers joined May Day rallies in the Greek capital to protest against ...

Electricity has risen, gas has risen, necessities have risen. But pay levels are still low, especially in the context of higher power bills. We will fight it, because the working class cannot survive any more," said Katerina Dekaristou, a teacher, standing outside the parliament.

PARIS: Police fired tear gas to push back black-clad anarchists who ransacked business premises in the French capital Paris on Sunday (May 1) during May Day ...

Unlike in previous years, Marine Le Pen did not lay a wreath in Paris at the statue of Joan or Arc, whom her party uses as a nationalist symbol. Advertisement Advertisement

Far-left leader Mélenchon urges unity to defeat president in parliamentary election. FRANCE-MAY DAY-PROTEST. Protesters gather ...

Both Le Pen and Mélenchon are out to stop Macron’s centrist La République En Marche party from winning a majority in parliament that would give him free rein to implement his agenda. Macron has dismissed such criticism and insisted he has more economically sound policies for tackling the problem. While most of the protesters demonstrated peacefully, dozens of businesses were damaged in Paris, including a McDonald’s branch, banks, insurance companies and real estate agencies.

PARIS (REUTERS) - Police fired tear gas to push back black-clad anarchists who ransacked business premises in Paris on Sunday (May 1) during May Day ...

Unlike in previous years, Marine Le Pen did not lay a wreath in Paris at the statue of Joan or Arc, whom her party uses as a nationalist symbol. He also accused the president of “inactivity” on environment issues. Le Pen urged voters in a video message to elect as many deputies from her party as possible in June so that she could “protect your purchasing power,” and prevent Macron from carrying a “harmful project for France and the French people”.

Police and protesters clashed in Turkey and France during May Day rallies on Sunday, as tens of thousands marched across the world in support of workers' ...

"Obviously it's bad in terms of our own self-interest, but it's necessary overall for the good of the country," said a young waiter at a deserted restaurant near the Forbidden City in Beijing. President Nicolas Maduro addressed the crowds at a separate pro-government march elsewhere in the city, blaming United States sanctions for his country's "economic storm" and announcing "Venezuela is headed for prosperity". There were also two separate marches in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, with hospital workers and other basic service employees calling for a "dignified salary" at one demonstration. Xiomara Castro, the new president of Honduras, was greeted by thousands chanting her name, and she responded by telling them she would govern for them and put an end to a "dark era" of corruption and drug trafficking. "It is time for us to pull him by his ear and kick him out," former legislator Hirunika Premachandra said at a rally in Colombo. Turkish riot police detained scores of demonstrators in Istanbul, pinning some of them to the ground and dragging them away from the rally, which the governor's office said was unauthorised.

Violence broke out at the traditional May Day rally in Paris as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in France to put pressure on recently ...

Tens of thousands of people marched Sunday in cities around Europe for May Day protests to honor workers and shame governments into doing more for citizens.

"May Day is the time to rally for a reduction in working time. Le Pen was defeated by Macron in the April 24 presidential runoff, and plans to campaign to keep her seat as a lawmaker. In Italy, after a two-year pandemic lull, an outdoor mega-concert was being held in Rome after rallies and protests in cities across the country. Opposition parties, notably from the far-left and the far-right, are looking to break his government's majority in France's parliamentary election in June. On the Asian side of sprawling Istanbul, a May Day union-organized gathering drew thousands who sang, chanted and waved banners. In France, protesters shouted slogans against newly elected President Emmanuel Macron, a development that may set the tone for his second term.

Citizens and trade unions in cities around Europe were taking to the streets on Sunday for May Day marches, and to put out protest messages to their.

Le Pen was defeated by Macron in last Sunday’s runoff of the presidential election, and plans to campaign to keep her seat as a lawmaker. Protests were planned across France with a focus on Paris where the Communist-backed CGT union was leading the main march through eastern Paris, joined by a handful of other unions. May Day is a time of high emotion for participants and their causes, with police on the ready.

PARIS: Police fired tear gas to push back black-clad anarchists who ransacked business premises in Paris on Sunday (May 1) during May Day protests against ...

Unlike in previous years, Marine Le Pen did not lay a wreath in Paris at the statue of Joan or Arc, whom her party uses as a nationalist symbol. "It is important to show Macron and the whole political world that we are prepared to defend our social rights," Joshua Antunes, a 19-year-old student said. Advertisement

Riot police in Istanbul detained at least 25 protesters trying to reach Taksim square for May 1st International Labour Day celebrations.

In France, protesters shouted slogans against newly elected President Emmanuel Macron. Tensions erupted in Paris, as some demonstrators smashed windows at some ...

Inflation, running at an annual clip of 8.8% in March, is at a 14-year-high. Besides improving conditions for workers, peace was an underlying theme, with many calls for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. On the Asian side of sprawling Istanbul, a union-organized gathering drew thousands who sang, chanted and waved banners. Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey briefly interrupted her May Day speech at a trade union rally where someone threw an egg at her but missed. Macron says that's the only way the government can continue to provide good retirement benefits Opposition parties are looking to break his government's majority in France's parliamentary election in June.

Seattle's annual May Day march for workers' and immigrants' rights experienced a resurgence Sunday, bolstered by high-profile union successes across the ...

Instead, organizers used cars and bicyclists to stop traffic and make way for the march. By midday, the display was largely peaceful, with Seattle police officers scattered along the route, hemming in marchers. Other demonstrators participated to support a broad spectrum of progressive stances.

Tensions erupted as thousands of protesters showed newly reelected President Emmanuel Macron the opposition he could face in his second five-year term.

Macron says that is the only way the government can continue to provide good retirement benefits to the French. May Day is often a time of high emotion for trade unionists and other workers, and protests in the last two years have been limited by pandemic restrictions. Demonstrators broke windows at some banks and a fast-food restaurant, ripped up street signs and burned barricades in the streets - apparently the work of men dressed and masked in black.

SINGAPORE: Tripartism must always be a “stabilising and anchoring force” for Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his May Day Rally speech on ...

“The Government will do our part to safeguard our national interests. Singapore can feel the headwinds, even as it senses new opportunities opening up. It helps bring Singaporeans together, so that people know they are not alone,” he said. It shows how much talent and potential we have in our workforce." “Only in Singapore and only thanks to the NTUC. This is tripartism in practice, a huge competitive advantage for Singapore,” he said. Singapore has to maximise the potential of its domestic labour force, given that the domestic population is “hardly growing” and that the workforce is ageing, he said.

As in past crises, the Labour Movement provided vital support to our workers. During the worst days of the pandemic, NTUC partnered the Government to extend ...

We will continue to cooperate closely with the Labour Movement to invest in every worker, to look after every worker, and to uplift every worker. The Government will do our part to safeguard our national interests, we will work with Singaporeans to find the best way forward. Tripartism must always be a stabilising and anchoring force for Singapore. We must continually reaffirm the bonds, and sustain them from one generation to the next. All of us are familiar with the blue recycling bins in our neighbourhoods, and the trucks that come around to collect and bring them back to recycling facilities. The trucks and the devices are operated by truck captains – it is a small change of title, but it is a meaningful gesture to recognise their skills, and instil pride in themselves. Business transformation and upskilling, the two of them must go hand in hand, so that when new jobs are created, workers are equipped to take them up, when there is technology and progress, workers are not displaced. It is how we have come through uncertain times and crises in the past, and it is what we will continue to need, to remain united and successful in the future. And the fundamental solution to this is to make ourselves more productive, to transform our businesses, to grow our economy, to uplift everyone. Besides contributing ideas, the Labour Movement has been deeply involved in the hard work of transforming and upgrading our economy, and improving the productivity of our businesses and workers. But the rest we consume, we turn on the lights, we turn on the air conditioner, we drive our cares, we have to bear that cost –Singapore households, businesses, and the government. Our strategy can only be one – and that is to stay open, to make our economy stronger, more resilient, and to keep on seizing opportunities for growth, developing new capabilities and becoming a more competitive economy. When the oil prices doubled to US$100 per barrel, which they have done since the beginning of last year, we have to pay double too – which means we all have to pay an extra S$30 bn a year for our crude oil and gas.

May Day is often a time of high emotions for workers in Europe, and protests in the last two years have been limited by pandemic restrictions. Mayday parade.

“May Day is the time to rally for a reduction in working time. There is a third round, the legislative elections,” said National Rally's Jordan Bardella. “It would be unbelievable to leave full power to Emmanuel Macron.” Inflation, running at an annual clip of 8.8 per cent in March, is at a 14-year-high. Macron says that's the only way the government can continue to provide good retirement benefits. It will take more than government efforts to promote the language French police moved in, firing rounds of tear gas.

Singapore, with its tight integration in the global economy and small size, will always be a price taker when it comes to world markets, said PM Lee. "We have ...

Singapore has to take the world as it is, and develop a strategy that works for us in this troubled environment." "Global growth will be weaker, and there may be a recession within the next two years," he warned. "Then our incomes can go up, and that can more than make up for higher prices of energy and food. We cannot avoid these global headwinds." If the prices go up, our prices go up. is to make ourselves more productive, to transform our businesses, to grow our economy, to uplift everyone," he noted.

Police fired tear gas to push back black-clad anarchists who ransacked business premises in Paris on May 1 during May Day protests against the policies of ...

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