“Bring the economy to its knees”: Besancenot “in solidarity” with the words of a CGT trade unionist on the strike
Should the unions bring the “economy to its knees” this Tuesday, March 7 in the fight once morest pension reform? “The answer is yes”, assured this Thursday Emmanuel Lépine, Secretary General of the National Federation of Chemical Industries FNIC-CGT. This Monday on the set of BFMTV, the trade unionist received the support of Olivier Besancenot, former presidential candidate for the NPA.
“It’s not my first expression, but I understand it, I’m in solidarity with it,” he explains. “I know exactly what that trade unionist meant.”
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More than 260 events planned throughout France this Tuesday, March 7
Pour protest once morest pension reform, it will not be necessary to go far from home. The intersyndicale organizes throughout the country more than 260 demonstrations once morest the government’s project, which provides in particular for the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years.
Debates are accelerating in the Senate, article 7 should be examined by the end of the week
Debates on pension reform accelerated significantly overnight from Monday to Tuesday in the Senate, giving parliamentarians hope for the examination of Article 7, on the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, from this Tuesday evening . After 14 hours of discussions between 10:00 a.m. on Monday and 3:09 a.m. on Tuesday, the senators are now on article 6.
Rare fact: the president of the Luxembourg Palace, Gérard Larcher, returned in the middle of the night to lead the debates.
>> The summary of the last hours in the Senate in this article
Line-by-line details of disruptions at RATP
The RATP detailed this Monday, at the end of the day, the traffic forecast for Tuesday. Metro and RER traffic will be “very disrupted” with the strike once morest pension reform. Trams and buses will also see their frequencies reduced.
The company said that traffic will still be “very disrupted” for the day on Wednesday on the metro and RER lines. Traffic will be almost normal on the bus network and normal for the trams.
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Night blocking of the road to Lorient once morest the pension reform
The road to Lorient, west of Rennes, has been blocked for several hours, several accounts of activists on social networks said overnight. including that of the far-left student collective Le Poing levé. This group claims that the police used tear gas canisters to push back the demonstrators.
The information of the blocking of the road was confirmed by the local media actu.fr, which counted at two o’clock in the morning “a hundred demonstrators.”
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