THE ESSENTIAL
- Strikes began on Monday at SNCF, and sometimes for several days like at EDF, against the government’s pension reform. Many sectors mobilize this Tuesday. read the article
- Demonstrations take place across the country throughout the day. BFMTV has more than 260 meeting points. See our menu
- Last night, opponents of the reform set up barricades in Rennes. Security forces used tear gas canisters. read the article
- Finally, on the political level, the debates accelerated last night in the Senate. The parliamentarians will resume their discussions starting at 2:30 p.m. on article 6. Read article
“It depends on what you call losers”: Borne returns to the words of Dussopt
“With this reform, there will be no losers,” said Olivier Dussopt this weekend in the parisian. Asked on Monday by France 5, Elisabeth Borne did not take up the words of the Minister of Labor.
“It depends on what you call losers,” the prime minister said. “We are not going to say that there are no people who work more,” he acknowledged, specifying that this is “the condition to maintain our distribution system.”
François Ruffin, present at a roundabout on the Somme: “The goal is to block it”
François Ruffin is on a roundabout in the industrial area north of Amiens on the Somme. The place brings together the highest concentration of employees in the entire department. The last time there was a large rally in this roundabout was in 2010 during the pension reform advocated by Labor Minister Éric Woerth, under the leadership of Nicolas Sarkozy. The blockade had lasted three days.
“The goal is already that today it is blocked and well blocked, not only here, but throughout the Somme,” François Ruffin explained to BFMTV.
François Ruffin does not fear, for the moment, that the movement will become unpopular because of the blockades. “We’ll see,” said the rebel before adding that “two thirds of the French are in favor of the blockade.” “The government had lots of warnings, there were three demonstrations for 1.2.3 million people, there are 9 out of 10 employees, 7 out of 10 French people who say no to this reform,” adds the Somme deputy.
“Left reform”: for Besancenot, Dussopt’s words are “either funny or very serious”
“He’s much better than me at getting people out into the streets.” Olivier Besancenot was invited to our antenna to react to the statements by Olivier Dussopt who stated that the pension reform was a reform of the social democratic left.
He then quipped: “If it’s about left-wing reform, I’m the representative of Bernard Arnault’s staff.”
“Bring the economy to its knees”: Besancenot “stands in solidarity” with the words of a CGT trade unionist on strike
Should unions bring the “economy” to its knees? this Tuesday March 7th in the fight against the pension reform? “The answer is yes”, assured this Thursday Emmanuel Lépine, Secretary General of the National Federation of Chemical Industries FNIC-CGT. This Monday on the set of BFMTV, the trade unionist received the support of Olivier Besancenot, former presidential candidate for the NPA.
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More than 260 events planned throughout France this Tuesday, March 7
For Protest against pension reform, it will not be necessary to move away from home. The inter-union organizes more than 260 demonstrations throughout the country against the government’s project, which provides in particular for the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years.
Debates are speeding up in the Senate, article 7 must be examined at the end of the week
Debates on pension reform accelerated significantly overnight from Monday to Tuesday in the Senate, giving parliamentarians hope for the examination of article 7, on the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, starting on the night of this Tuesday. After 14 hours of discussions between 10:00 a.m. Monday and 3:09 a.m. Tuesday, the senators are now on Article 6.
Odd fact: the president of the Luxembourg Palace, Gérard Larcher, returned in the middle of the night to lead the debates.
>> The summary of the last hours in the Senate in this article
Line-by-line details of RATP outages
The RATP detailed this Monday, at the end of the day, the traffic forecast for Tuesday. Metro and RER traffic will be “very disturbed” with the strike against the pension reform. Trams and buses will also see their frequencies reduced.
The company said that traffic will continue to be “very interrupted” during the day on Wednesday on the metro and RER lines. Traffic will be close to normal on the bus network and normal for trams.
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Night blockade of the Lorient highway against the pension reform
The highway to Lorient, west of Rennes, has been blocked for several hours, various activist accounts on social media said overnight. including that of the far-left student collective Le Poing levé. This group claims that the police used tear gas canisters to force the protesters back.
The information about the blockade of the road was confirmed by the local media actu.fr, which had “a hundred protesters” at two in the morning.
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