Pension reform: new day of national mobilization will take place on March 7

The fourth day is scheduled for Saturday throughout France, and the fifth Thursday, February 16.

MO12345lemonde with AFP

The unions once again gave an appointment to the opponents of the pension reform. Union sources announced Thursday, February 9, at the France-Presse (AFP) agency (AFP) a new and sixth day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday March 7, at the end of school holidays, and when the government project will be debated at the Senate.

“There will be a big day on the 7th and a special initiative on 8, in connection with the International Women’s Rights Day,” Yvan Ricordeau, national secretary of the CFDT.

told AFP.

The intersyndicale programmed a press conference on Saturday February 11 at 11:45 a.m., on the Labor Stock Exchange in Paris, to specify its battle plan, upstream of the Parisian demonstration for the fourth day of action.

The unions announced on Wednesday a fifth day of strikes and demonstrations on February 16.

solidarity for a renewable strike from March 8

The third day of mobilization, which took place on Tuesday, brought together 757,000 people according to the Ministry of the Interior, “almost two million” according to the organizers, figures below the previous days, the 19 and January 31.

A fourth day is scheduled for Saturday throughout France, in order to allow all those who cannot demonstrate on weekdays, explain the unions. The Parisian demonstration will set off on Saturday at 1 p.m. from Place de la République towards the Place de la Nation, according to the CGT. The authorities provide for a little more than two hundred actions on Saturday, bringing together Paris 500,000 to 700,000 people.

Interviewed on Wednesday morning on BFMTV, the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, said to hope for a “very strong mobilization” on Saturday and called everyone to “go and demonstrate massively with the whole family”.

The Solidaires union also plans to propose to the inter -union to “carry the renewable strike from Wednesday March 8”, according to an internal note transmitted to AFP.

/Media reports cited above.