Withdrawals: what are the next days of planned mobilization?

The success seems to be in the appointment of this first day of mobilization against the pension reform.

Transport (SNCF, RATP, ferries, etc.) are almost paralyzed, according to the unions, there are 70 to 100% strikers at Totalenergies (refineries), reductions are observed in electricity production at EDF, while the rate of strikers among teachers would once again be 65 to 70% according to the unions. A true “Black Thursday”.

At the same time, the first demonstrations in the provinces are full as in Mulhouse, Rennes and Pau, waiting for the test in Paris this afternoon. The unions expected a total of 1 million people on the streets this Thursday to break the government. According to Laurent Berger (CFDT), the mobilization promises to go “beyond what we thought”. The same story for Philippe Martinez (CGT) which now has a number of participants exceeding one million.

“From Marseille to Toulouse, passing through Saint-Nazaire, the demonstrations this morning in many cities resembled human tides. Looking forward to those this afternoon. It begins on a beautiful day… and will end when the government has retracted,” he writes. for example Clémentine Autain, the elected NUPES of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Based on these positive signals, what could be the continuation of the move?

Intersyndicale: a first decision this Thursday night

It will meet this Thursday at 6:00 p.m., at the Solidaires headquarters, to take stock of this first day, but all the unions are convinced that a single day of action will not be enough.

The CGT, Solidaires or the FSU, advocate a new closer date, for example the Thursday January 26one week from the day after the first mobilization date.

On BFMTV, Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the CGT confirms: “we will take stock (…) today is a first stage and there will be a second stage. In the general assemblies it is debated. We will see this late (but) in certain professions, as we have set two new days of action. Our goal is that the maximum number of employees can express their opposition, this afternoon there will be decisions taken “.

The CFDT is in the same line even if it does not immediately call for new days of action, and evokes January 31 for a new mobilization.

“The text has not yet been presented to the Council of Ministers, it is next Monday, [qu’il] it will reach the National Assembly in plenary session on February 6, so we still have time to express our discontent,” he added.

But to warn: “if the text comes out as it is in the Council of Ministers and in Parliament, we will have other mobilizations. We will have to look pro sector by pro sector in the coming days”.

Energy, transport: towards an increase in power?

But it will be necessary to address the specific demands of the striking workers of the CGT Energie (refineries) who intend to gain momentum with a one-day strike this Thursday, then a two-day strike next week and a hardening of the movement in early February.

An approach that would be shared by the employees of the RATP (whose special pension scheme is in the newcomers’ bench) or even of the SNCF.

The important mobilization of this Thursday runs the risk of acting as a catalyst, at the risk of overwhelming the unions.

“I think we will have to wait until (Thursday) to have a taste of the rest,” a member of the controllers group at the origin of the very often organized Christmas weekend strike explained to BFM Business a few days ago. on social networks