Point-of-View – While 2 million French people were marching in the streets on Thursday, January 19, Emmanuel Macron said from abroad that the pension reform will be done with “determination” because it was in his electoral program. A real provocation.
A 48-hour strike was voted at Le Républicain Lorrain (Metz), a 24-hour walkout at L’Est Républicain (Nancy, Besançon) and at Vosges Matin (Epinal), all three of which belong to the EBRA group (Crédit Mutuel).
That’s exactly the wrong thing to do. Announcing the use of 49-3 in the open on a late Saturday afternoon, after a cabinet meeting on coronavirus, is a major blunder that Macronesia will pay a heavy price for. At the ballot box. And in the street.
Strikes, demonstrations and various actions are planned from 15 to 20 February 2020, in Paris and in the provinces. Reminder of the main events scheduled.
The mobilization continues against the pension reform project as the “financing conference” opens on Thursday 30. Bad luck for the government after the severe opinion of the Council of State.
Unions opposed to pension reform are calling for a 7th day of strikes and demonstrations on Friday, the day the Council of Ministers will discuss the draft law.
The very discreet chartered accountants and auditors have a surplus autonomous pension fund of 1.7 billion euros. They don’t want to let it go unreported.
Unions opposed to pension reform and students are calling for a 7th day of strikes and demonstrations on the day the Council of Ministers will consider the bill.
Nothing is settled after the Prime Minister’s announcement to remove “conditionally” the pivotal age for pension reform. Lawyers, doctors, teachers, railway workers, etc. are calling for the “withdrawal of the project”.
After that of Thursday, January 9, a new day of mobilization is scheduled for Saturday, January 11 throughout France before three other days scheduled for January 14, 15 and 16.
Point-of-view. The former Secretary of State for the Budget explains that before any reform is implemented, the right questions must be asked. And answer them
After more than a month of massive strikes and monster demonstrations, the return to work promises to be decisive for both the executive and the unions. With two days of mobilization, January 9 and 11.
