Will the executive’s use of 49.3 invigorate opponents of the pension reform? Thousands of people took to the streets Thursday night to protest the government’s use of this constitutional weapon. And while the inter-union calls for action this weekend and a day of strike on March 23, in some cities the mobilization continues this Friday.
First in Normandy, where unions are asking all “workers to resume at 4:00 am the blocking points of the industrial zone economy” of Le Havre, BFMTV learned.
Meetings in front of various prefectures
In several cities, such as Dax, Mont-de-Marsan (Landes), Laval (Mayenne), Foix (Ariège) or Thouars (Deux-Sèvres), local inter-union unions call on opponents of the pension reform to meet before the prefectures and sub-prefectures.
Ditto in Rouen, where the event will take place at noon, place de l’Hôtel de ville. In Toulon, the demonstration will take place at 9:30 am in front of the Var prefecture and the procession will join the town hall.
Around 1:30 p.m., a General Assembly will take place to decide on the resumption of the strike at the Donges refinery. In the afternoon, the FNME-CGT will meet the “general secretaries of the unions to decide the follow-up that will be given” to the movement.
Traffic continues to be disrupted on SNCF
In many sectors, strike notices have not been lifted. Thus, the SNCF foresees on Friday a traffic plan without major changes compared to Thursday, on the eleventh day of the renewable strike against the pension reform, with in particular 2 TGVs out of 3 and some improvements in Île-de-France.
Several “surprise” actions could take place, as has been the case almost daily since the start of the movement against pension reform.
“End of the game, it is the workers who will whistle when we have achieved the repeal of the reform,” Olivier Mateu, from CGT 13, warned this Thursday afternoon. “We are not going to let go,” he said – he warned during a rally against 49.3
On the side of the authorities, Gérald Darmanin must meet the prefects this Friday morning. The patron of the deputies of the Renaissance, Aurore Bergé, asked him to “mobilize the services of the State” for the “protection of the parliamentarians” of the majority, in the sights of the opponents of the pension reform.
Source: BFM TV
