Throughout France, the unions have managed to strongly mobilize against the postponement of the departure age to 64 years. A new day of action is scheduled for Tuesday, January 31.
by Thibaud Métais (and the correspondents of the “world”)
The balance of power is launched. Nine days after the presentation of the Prime Minister reform project, Elisabeth Borne, the trade union organizations wanted to hit a big blow from the first day of mobilization, Thursday, January 19. This is done, since 1.12 million people demonstrated in France, including 80,000 in Paris, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The CGT has announced “more than 2 million” demonstrators gathered across the country and 400,000 in the capital.
The head of state, Emmanuel Macron, assured Barcelona since the government will continue his pension reform “with respect, spirit of dialogue, but determination and spirit of responsibility”. But the eight main organizations have already granted themselves on a new date of mobilization, Tuesday January 31, the day after the first day of examination of the bill in the National Assembly.
With the gathering of all union officials behind a single banner, in particular those of the CFDT and the CGT, Laurent Berger and Philippe Martinez, the stake was crucial for the eight union organizations, united for the first time For more than twelve years. “The mobilization is important,” recognized on Thursday evening on RTL, the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, adding that “must listen to the messages in the processions of this afternoon and this morning”.
“The beginning of something”
From Paris to Marseille, from Rennes to Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse and even in the overseas territories, the demonstrations were massive to request the withdrawal of the decline of the legal starting age of 62 at 64 years promised by the government. In Paris, the rally was so imposing that a BIS route had to be opened to unclog the Place de la République, Noire de Monde. There were teachers, firefighters, students, police, hospital staff but also private employees. All paraded against pension reform but not only. The increase in wages in the face of inflation, the sharing of wealth, the taxation of super profits and the overall questioning of Emmanuel Macron’s policy also occupied conversations.
It has been a lot of question of the future, in the processions. That of the pension system, reform and government. But above all the future of all these public and private employees worried about having to work longer. In Rennes, Eliane Daguet, accountant who will have, according to her calculations, work twenty-one additional month if the reform is voted, breathes: “This demonstration must be the beginning of something. We will have to return to the street but the government knows that every day of mobilization is expensive. “
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