Posted Feb 11 2023 at 01:27 PMUpdated Feb 11. 2023 at 01:57 PM
They are definitely not leaving each other and it is not regarding to stop. This Saturday, an hour before the start of the Parisian demonstration once morest the pension reform, the leaders of the eight French unions held a joint press conference before joining the procession starting from République.
While the particularity of the protest movement is its power in the territories, they announced that they would march together once more during the fifth day of action once morest the passage from 62 to 64 years old, but this time in Albi , a town in the south of France, near Toulouse.
They also and above all announced their intention to take a new step in the collective mobilization they initiated on January 19th. CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, Solidaires and FSU as well as the youth movements which are integrated into the intersyndicale have indeed called “to harden the movement by putting France to a halt in all sectors on March 7th.
Take a new step
For several days now, union leaders, in the forefront of which the Cedtist leader, Laurent Berger, have been pounding the “deafness” of the government, entirely turned towards the search for a political compromise with LR, despite the scale of the mobilizations.
After two days of demonstrations in January having crossed the million mark throughout France according to the police, and a little slack on Tuesday February 7, where 757,000 demonstrators were counted by the Ministry of the Interior, the unions were counting this noon on a new show of force this Saturday, already announcing some 100,000 demonstrators in Toulouse.
Next Thursday’s meeting, which might mark time once more due to school holidays and the purchasing power issue of any strike, will “close a first sequence”, explained on the sidelines of the press conference. the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril.
On March 7, when everyone will have returned from leave, marking the start of a second phase where employee organizations want to raise the tension a notch. The inter-union also promises follow-up with the prospect of International Women’s Rights Day on March 8, while the consequences of the reform on women are one of the points of tension.
