Schools, transport and the energy sector are affected on Tuesday by a call for a strike.
The day of October 1 will be political, with Michel Barnier’s highly anticipated speech to the Assembly, but it will also be social.
When the Prime Minister outlines the broad outlines of his project in front of the deputies, the street will respond with a warning shot. The CGT, Solidaires, FSU and youth organizations have launched a call for a strike and demonstration this Tuesday.
“It’s the return match against pension reform”says the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet.
Pensions and salaries
Its union, the second in France behind the CFDT, called at the end of August to join the mobilization initiated by the inter-union of retirees to demand, among other things, “the repeal of the pension reform, the increase in salaries and pensions, equality between women and men, the financing of our public services”.
Nearly 180 gatherings recorded in France These demands will resonate during the Parisian demonstration, launched from Place Denfert-Rochereau at 2 p.m., an hour before the head of government speaks, in the direction of the Bastille.
The call for a walkout could lead to slight disruptions in transport in France, particularly on the traffic of certain TER and Intercités trains. The movement could also have repercussions in educational establishments and affect the energy sector (gas and electricity).
“The feedback from the field is not good”
But, according to a union source cited by BFMTV on Monday, the “lifts from the ground are not good” and this first mobilization could be rather weak.
It must be said that the CFDT, FO, CGE-CGC, CFTC and Unsa refused to join the mobilization, ruining the hope of a united union front.
On Sunday, the CGT recorded 179 rallies, compared to 200 on May 1 and 250 during the last act of the mobilization against pension reform.
