A “massive” mobilization is needed on Tuesday, the general secretary of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, called on Monday, on the eve of a sixth day of action against the pension reform. “I call on the employees of this country, the citizens of this country, the retirees of this country, who are against the pension reform, to come and demonstrate en masse,” said the trade unionist. over France InterMonday in the morning.
“I think that tomorrow we have to have an extremely strong day of mobilization. That means a lot of people on the streets first. There are even more demonstration sites than other times, there are more than 250, 260,” she added.
On January 31, the police had identified 1.27 million members and the inter-union more than 2.5 million on the streets of France against the government’s pension reform project. In this context, Laurent Berger requested a response from the Head of State.
“It is not a pedagogical problem”
“Le président de la République ne peut pas rester sourd. On ne peut pas avoir ce silence maintainant qui dure depuis deux mois avec juste des petites phrases appelant à la responsabilité des uns et des autres sans prendre en compte le probleme”, at -el says. The union leader also lamented the absence of discussions with the government. “We are in a conflict where for the moment we have not been received in the inter-union collective by anyone from the government,” lamented Laurent Berger.
“It is not a problem of pedagogy as we understand this reform. It is a problem of social injustice. It is a problem of inequalities”, continued the leader of the CFDT. “Today there is a great social movement expressing itself (…) and a political response will be needed,” he hammered.
Source: BFM TV
