Hello, everyone.
The reason why we, video makers, have united...
...is to tell you about the new labour law...
...that the government is working on.
The text in not final yet, but in its current state...
...the labour reform bill is far from winning unanimous support.
The topic might seem annoying and technical, but it affects us all to some extent.
It concerns us all.
And what is currently happening is really serious.
This bill is just baffling, while the law still protects us a bit.
We are left alone to deal with our managers...
...to negotiate our working conditions.
Doing night shifts, on Sunday. Riiiight! Always more.
It would allow employers to reduce our wages...
...without any justification of actual financial difficulties.
Or they could simply fire us just by claiming some economic concocted layoff plan.
It's a real jump back to the 19th century, you know, Germinal and all this stuff.
But who's surprised by this type of decision ?
The people who make them know nothing about real work.
For them, we are just numbers and statistics.
Whereas for us, our job is our daily routine, our reality, our life.
So, will we be passive or will we decide we are worth more than that?
"We" is us, you, your brothers, your sisters, your parents, your buddies...
And those who'll follow because these decisions will change our rights...
...and our lives for a long time to come.
We have all had crappy jobs and some of us still do.
But what we want is just to live...
...without being considered as nothing more than a worker-consumer.
Politicians never let us speak.
Today we need to speak up.
Let's be heard with #WeAreWorthMore
Hey buddy, you know what ?
Nobody can speak better about your job than you!
So get on your favorite social media and use hashtag #WeAreWorthMore.
Tell us about the last time you felt like you were getting screwed.
Tell us about when were asked to do something absurd and impossible.
When you were unfairly refused a job.
When your job took over your entire life.
When you were asked to work for free or you didn't get your pay or your bonus.
When you thought you were going nuts.
Or when you were in danger at work.
Tell us about how they talked to you like a child.
When it seemed like your colleague had become a competitor...
...and you didn't like that or worse, you did like it.
When you felt guilty leaving work on time.
Or simply because you were sick.
When you alone had to do the work of 3 people.
When your job search became humiliating.
Or like when you realized your résumé was totally useless.
When you felt like your work was pointless.
When you've thought others are worse off than you...
...and so you went along with it.
Send us your story, audio or video, anonymously or not...
...with #WeAreWorthMore.
We are creating a platform to collect all your experiences...
...and get them noticed.
We are making our skills available to you to create visuals...
...to edit videos and help get all our voices heard.
Whether you're a cashier, overseer, bricklayer, chef, cop or teacher in a tough school district...
...longtime unemployed person, delivery man, cab driver...
...struggling artist or temporary researcher...
...you are worth more than what the future is preparing for you.
We are gearing up for a battle.
I assure you that "Macron's Law" was nothing compared to this.
We have been quiet for way too long, my friends.
So it's easy for them to govern, to ignore us and to take us for fools...
...when we don't speak up.
Now is the time to get moving.
We are going to show them our lives and our dreams.
We are going to show them we will not be duped into the consequences...
...that their decisions will have on our lives.
We are going to show them we are worth more than little decisions.
We are going to show them that together we are worth more than that.