The CGT anticipates several actions once morest the government’s project this Thursday, which will be “a great day of energy sobriety.” Young people are called to demonstrate in Paris in the followingnoon.
Third day of struggle. In many sectors this Thursday, employees are called to strike and to demonstrations by the unions to protest once morest the pension reform. The central article of the text, on raising the legal age of departure to 64, which arouses the most opposition, was adopted shortly following midnight by the Senate.
Mobilization in several sectors
Enough to motivate opponents of the reform throughout the country. Within the Feyzin refinerynear Lyon, the strikers for example announced this Wednesday followingnoon the renewal of the strike for a week, until March 15.
This Thursday will be “a great day of energy sobriety”, immediately warns the National Federation of Mines and Energy – CGT (FNME-CGT).
On the transport side, employees will also be mobilized and train traffic will remain severely disrupted this Thursday and Friday on all lines operated by SNCF Voyageurs. For the RATP and the Paris region, traffic “will improve” but will remain disrupted in certain stations.
In addition, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) in France has required airlines to give up 20-30% of their flights on Thursday and Friday, like the two previous days, due to the controllers’ strike. airlines opposed to pension reform.
Young people in the street
This Thursday should be marked above all by the “mobilization of youth” announced by several organizations including student unions (Unef, Alternative and Fage), the Voix lycéenne (high school student union) or political organizations (Young Communists, Young Socialists, Young rebels, Young ecologists…).
A demonstration at the initiative of these youth organizations will take place this followingnoon in Paris between Saint-Lazare station and Place de la République, followed by a rally with speeches on arrival, with the support of the intersyndicale, some of whose representatives will be present.
High school student unions are also calling for blockades in establishments to “make Macron bend.”
The organizations of young people or employees are all unanimous: they will mobilize “until the withdrawal” of the pension reform. They are already giving an appointment for a new day of demonstrations this Saturday, February 11.
Before new actions next week “to put pressure on parliamentarians”, who might definitively vote for the reform on Thursday March 16.
