The intersyndicale, still united, threatens to “put France to a stop” if the government maintains the postponement of the legal age to 64 years.
by Bertrand Bissuel
Without saying it explicitly, they launched an ultimatum to the government. Saturday, February 11, the eight main employees’ unions and five youth defense organizations announced their intention to “put France upon stopping”, on March 7, if the pension reform is maintained as it is. The word “blockage”, which would have been a regrowth, was carefully avoided in the common declaration written by the thirteen coalitions, but their ardor in combat is displayed in all letters: they are ready “to harden the movement (…) in all sectors “.
The decision was made public a few minutes before the start of the demonstration in Paris against the executive project. In the capital, 93,000 people paraded, according to the Interior Ministry (500,000, according to the CGT). Throughout the territory, the public authorities estimated the number of women and men who beat the pavement at 963,000. A result higher than the previous national action day of February 7 (757,000), but below the first two, which had exceeded the million bar, in January.
Invited, Sunday, of the program “The Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI”, Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT, questioned the official costing provided the day before, calling it “minored” – Which is not in its habits. Based on a review made by his troops, the cededist leader said that 1.8 million individuals had involved the processions. Whatever the costing retained, the organizations involved in the struggle reached a high level of mobilization in a period of school holidays which did not play in their favor.
Operation “Dead”
“This social movement, unprecedented by its magnitude, is therefore now anchored in the social landscape,” said Frédéric Souillot, the number one of FO, reading the press release from the inter -union, surrounded by its counterparts, during ‘A press conference on the Paris Labor Stock Exchange on Saturday. “The determination is still there, always more important,” added Philippe Martinez, the head of the CGT. François Manril, the president of the CFE-CGC, hammered that “the only possible outcome of this conflict” is to abandon the postponement to 64 years of the legal retirement age.
Protesters program a new demonstration of force, Thursday, February 16, twenty-four hours before the end of the examination of the bill relating to the reform in the National Assembly. That day, the leaders of the thirteen organizations will parade in Albi, so as to highlight “the anchoring” of this “popular dispute” in France. “It is a way of greeting medium -sized cities, where participation in demonstrations is, proportionately to the population, proven often more sustained than in major cities,” explains Cyril Chabanier, the president of the CFTC.
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