Faced with fear of growing social mobilization, Elisabeth Borne defends her action

The Prime Minister, invited on Sunday from the “8 pm” of TF1, urged businesses that can increase wages. Four employee unions and four organizations representing youth call to stop work on Tuesday.

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regain control. As quickly as possible. After a trying week when the government has given the feeling of losing control of events, overwhelmed by the blockages of refineries while being embarrassed in parliament by its own majority during the budget exam, Elisabeth Borne tried , Sunday October 16, to show that there was always a pilot on the plane. And that this pilot was her. “The government acts,” said the Prime Minister, guest of the “20 am” of TF1.

A defensive position at the forefront of a new social mobilization, scheduled for Tuesday, October 18, whose executive is still unaware of the scope. Even if the “great march against dear life and climate inaction”, orchestrated on Sunday, by the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) confirmed the social tensions that agitate the country. Bringing together some 140,000 people according to the organizers, 30,000 according to the police, the movement foreshadows, in the eyes of its main instigator, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “the conjunction of popular mobilization, union mobilization and the institutional crisis”. “We are now drawing the construction of a new popular front which will exercise power in the country when the time comes,” said the leader of rebellious France. “It is a question of putting the ardor in the hearts so that, then, it extends,” abounded Sunday on France Inter the deputy of the Somme, François Ruffin.

Tuesday, four employee unions (CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires) and four organizations representing youth (Fidl, MNL, UNEF, High School Voices) call to stop work to claim measures in favor of power of power And defend the right to strike – according to them, according to them, by the recent requisitions of workers in refineries. “This is an additional step, after the previous day of interprofessional action of September 29, to raise the balance of power in order to obtain employee revaluations,” explains Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT.

Disruptions announced in transport

This initiative should cause RATP disturbances, on bus traffic and in certain RER lines. At the SNCF, the movement was difficult to identify, Monday morning, from the point of view of its magnitude but it could prove stronger than September 29 and extend beyond Tuesday: “We will hold general meetings to Throughout the territory to offer railway workers the renewal of strikes, “explains Erik Meyer, of the Sud-Rail union. On the issue of remuneration, “there is real anger with us”, he insists: “We are convinced that we must go and seek the increases on our pay sheets.” In nuclear power plants, the dispute, In progress for several weeks, is gaining ground, according to the CGT, which claims that nine sites are now affected.

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