The CGT has claimed, for this first day of interprofessional mobilization since the start of the school year, more than 250,000 participants in nearly 200 events in France.
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It was the first day of strike and interprofessional mobilization since the start of the school year. And the first since the re -election of Emmanuel Macron in April. Thursday, September 29, more than 200 processions were formed throughout France at the call of the CGT, the FSU, Solidaires and student and high school organizations (Unef, Fidl, MNL and La Voix highn), which have Bringing together more than 250,000 people, according to figures from the CGT (the police have not yet communicated their own). With demonstrators determined to show their forces, while fall promises to be hectic on social issues. Even if Emmanuel Macron had chosen, the day before, to delay about the pension reform by opening a new cycle of consultations with the social partners and the political forces of the country, with a view to a global bill “before The end of winter “.
Because if the pension reform, and especially the question of the decline of the legal age of departure, was obviously part of the watchword of the day, the mobilization had initially been launched to claim an increase in wages, Pensions, scholarships and social minima in the face of inflation. “The message is clear: it is the wages that must be increased, not the legal retirement age,” said the secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, before the demonstration ‘Élance in Paris, around 2 p.m.
in the capital, within the procession that paraded between Place Denfert-Rochereau and Bastille, the claims of some 40,000 demonstrators gathered , according to the organizers, often showed a general fed up towards government policy. Mélaine Marot, 34, is there against “Government’s overall policy”. “It is made by the rich and for the rich. And against the poor in general, against the workers”, judges this assistant in interim childcare, in Paris and in the suburbs. Same story with Benjamin Fradet, 27, technician in a laboratory of the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment: “It is the whole social package of the government that must be combat . The unemployment insurance reform, that of the RSA, that of pensions … The promise is the same: working more to win less is unbearable. “
“Since 2011, each year, I have lost purchasing power, due to the index point sub-indexation in the public service compared to inflation”, deplores Nathan, 33 years , statistician at INSEE. Before warning: “If there is a desire to make a bad pension reform, there will be people in the street to say it.” A possibility, which occupies the spirits. Nouredine Medouni, 53, employee of the Transdev transport group and UNSA union delegate, says “in total opposition to this retirement reform project”, and judges the political leaders “increasingly above ground”. “We want to work longer, but for what? To touch more retreats?
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