The CGT-Cheminots called this Friday to “amplify the demonstrations” against the pension reform but also to “activate other levers available to employees”, evoking a renewable strike starting on March 7. “The demonstrations are massive, union unity is very broad. The ingredients for a victory are therefore united”, the union rejoiced in a press release, on the eve of a new day of inter-professional demonstration on Saturday. But the number one union among railway workers still fears a forced step by the government and calls for a hardening of the movement to force it to withdraw its project.
Fearing the railway workers to launch a tough movement alone, the CGT responds that “the same debates will be held in all the branches of the CGT.” “We railway workers believe that if we want to win, we have to hit the right moments, so at the beginning of the school year, around March 7,” Laurent Brun, the federation’s general secretary, said in an interview with the newspapers. regional associations of the group, Ebra, which will be published on Saturday. He claims to want to “open the debate on the renewable strike from March 7, to move to a more intense level of mobilization”, that is, just after the school holidays in zone C, which covers Ile-de-France and ‘Occitania.
Continuation of the movement after the vote on the law
The CGT railway workers federation also calls a strike and demonstrations next Thursday, the day chosen by the confederations for a fifth interprofessional demonstration. When asked about his desire to extend the movement, even after the law has been passed, Laurent Brun agreed. “Our demands stand,” he insisted. “Employees will decide, but it is not because the law is approved that we stop.”
All the unions representing the SNCF (CGT-Cheminots, Unsa-Ferroviaire, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots) called demonstrations for Saturday but without declaring a strike. After the first two days of mobilization well followed in the public group, the third Tuesday began to mark time with a rate of strikers of 25% at noon (against 36% on January 31 and 46% on January 19).
Source: BFM TV
