While a new day of mobilization has already been announced for February 16, employee organizations are annoyed by remarks by the Minister of Labor at the “World”.
By Bertrand Bissuel and Thibaud Métais
Mobilization against pension reform resembles a long boxing match whose number of rounds remains unknown at this stage. Wednesday, February 8, representatives of the eight main workers’ unions met to set a new national action day – the fifth since the start of the conflict. It will take place on Thursday, February 16, twenty-four hours before the end of the debates on the bill in the National Assembly.
According to Dominique Corona, deputy secretary general of UNSA, this date was chosen because it could coincide with the moment when deputies examine article 7 of the text, relating to the decline of the legal age of departure From 62 to 64 years old, which crystallizes anger. By then, another stage is scheduled for Saturday, February 11, with demonstrations throughout France. Employee organizations are struggling to make it a successful show of force, after the rallies and parades of February 7, which attracted fewer people than in the two previous days of mobilization (757,000 people, against more than 1.1 million according to the Ministry of the Interior). The objective is to keep up with the pace and maintain a high level of combativeness in a period which does not lend itself to it, due to the school holidays spread until March 5.
On BFM-TV, Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT, urged the population on Wednesday to “massively” in the street “with the whole family”. His CGT counterpart, Philippe Martinez, for his part, indicated, on LCI, that it was necessary to “raise the tone” in the face of the executive. There is “need to decide on strikes”, he added: “This is what refiners do, that’s what railway workers do, others also think about it.” Even the central power plants moderate want to do battle. Until blocking the economy, at least punctually? “Yes, it’s envisaged,” replied Cyril Chabanier, the president of the CFTC, during the demonstration in Paris. The Christian Confederation does not exclude continuing the struggle beyond the adoption of the text by the Parliament-if it occurs.
a “skid” of the Minister of Labor
At the top of the state, some did not expect, it seems, such pugnacity on the part of so-called “reformist” unions-epithet with the uncertain content which designates the most arranged organizations in compromise . “They are under pressure from a base, they lied to us,” said the world Olivier Dussopt. According to the Minister of Labor, confederate leaders would have promised that they would show restraint in calls to dispute, the executive having taken into account some of their expectations through the social component of the project (revaluation of Small pensions, redesign of the long career system, etc.).
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