The eight main French unions and youth organizations will meet on Tuesday at the Bourse du travail in Paris to announce a date to mobilize against the pension reform, if the government sticks with its plan to raise the retirement age to 64 or 65. . We learned Friday from concordant sources.
The meeting is duly recorded in Laurent Berger’s diary. Several unions confirm that it will be at the Paris Labor Exchange.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is scheduled to reveal the reform to the press on Tuesday, before a presentation to the Council of Ministers on the 23rd.
The intersyndicale will bring together the numbers one of the eight main French trade union organizations (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU) and five youth organizations that have become accustomed since June to meet periodically at intervals, a front union who had not seen each other for 12 years.
Unpublished trade union front for 12 years
The date of this first day of mobilization would not yet be decided. Philippe Martínez, the general secretary of the CGT, wished this Thursday in Mediapart that there will be “massive and rapid mobilizations from the month of January.”
“The first date could be during the third week of January,” says Céline Verzeletti, CGT’s confederal secretary. “The goal is to start as quickly as possible, because we know that the government will want to go very quickly by skipping the necessary debate in parliament,” she explains.
Several sources evoke Thursday the 19th, underlining the interest also in “drawing” against the rebellious France that plans to demonstrate on Saturday the 21st.
Other sources mention 23, or even 24 or 26.
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“An appointment very quickly can have an explosive effect. But time is needed to mobilize,” ponders another union source.
Several officials evoke the organization of two or even three important days of mobilization before the February holidays, then the installation of a “harder” movement at the beginning of March.
However, employees could free themselves from the calendar decreed by the central unions, as illustrated by the movement of the SNCF controllers at the end of December, born outside any union framework.
“The consequences, we will decide internally, we are not necessarily going to wait the days + frog jump +. This is not what the base expects,” Sébastien Menesplier, of the CGT mines-energy, told AFP. Electric and gas companies would be very upset when their special regimes could fall victim to the reform.
Source: BFM TV
