The number one of the CGT, Philippe Martínez, foresees a “very strong mobilization” on January 19 against the pension reform, the Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt also expects “people in the street” on Thursday.
“It will be a very, very strong mobilization. It must be at the level of 1995, even 2010,” the CGT general secretary told France 3 on Sunday, who “does everything for” more than a million French people. people in the street on Thursday, to the call of the inter-union.
A right to strike that must not lead to a “blockade”
“There must also be strikes in public and private companies,” added Philippe Martínez. He said that it was based on the “number of buses ordered to go to the demonstrations”, the “long-standing strike notices” in public services and transport, and the many employees “who call us to ask how they are doing going on strike.”
For his part, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt “thinks that there will be people on the street because there is a mobilization led by many organizations.”
“The unions have legitimacy when they call a strike or a demonstration,” continued the minister questioned on France Inter / France Télévisions and The world. “It is a right. I hope it doesn’t result in a blockade of the country because a lot of people want to keep working.”
For her part, Aurore Bergé, president of the Renacimiento deputies, believes that the pension reform “will be adopted and will enter into force,” adding that “the right to strike is not a right to block.”
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“It must be recognized that the pension reform will require the efforts of millions of French people,” acknowledged the deputy on the LCI-RTL-Le Figaro Grand Jury, “the idea is not to show your muscles.”
He promised that “the French will not have the double penalty” of having “the penalization of strikes that can profoundly disrupt their daily life” and “on the other hand, of having parliamentarians who will not have the courage to undertake this reform.” We will have the courage to assume it and go all the way.”
The deputy said that she did not want to “impede the right to strike.” “On the other hand, we have a minimum service that exists in transport and that must be exercised in the RATP and the SNCF, and we have a minimum reception service at the school and I ask the communities to mobilize especially”.
“This right to strike is not a right to block,” nor “a right to hinder the French who want to go to work,” he repeated. “If we have to go further” to modify the minimum services law, “we will be ready to do it,” she warned.
Source: BFM TV
