Are the next big French sporting and cultural events likely to be collateral victims of union mobilization against pension reform? The unions of the CGT Energía announced last Friday “100 days of action and indignation”, specifically on May 3, demanding that the pension reform not be applied and denouncing the “undemocratic methods” of the Government.
“Macron has promised 100 days to appease, we promise him 100 days of action and courage! Time is far from resignation,” the CGT unions of the National Mining and Energy Federation (FNME) said in a statement, after a “council general”. held on Friday.
“In May, do what you want!” Korea CGT Energy
Illustration of this “grevilla,” according to the organization’s terms, power disturbances may be possible during highly publicized events.
“In May, do what you want! The Cannes film festival, the Monaco Grand Prix, the Roland-Garros tournament, the Avignon festival could all go dark! We won’t let it go!” , they add.
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is scheduled for May 16-27. Asked by BFMTV, Anna Créti, an economist specializing in energy issues, believes that the union actually has “technically the means” to plunge the Festival into darkness.
Regarding the Roland-Garros tournament that will take place from May 28 to June 11, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) assures that it is following “very carefully” the threats of riots in relation to the pension reform, and that he would monitor the phenomenon during the Roland-Garros tournament.
The attentive French Tennis Federation
“We have activated a clock. We are watching this very carefully. We have a security system tailored to the identified risks,” FFT director general Caroline Flassier told AFP.
“Today we have more than a thousand people to provide reception and security. We have a system adapted to the current context and therefore flexible,” said Caroline Flassier.
If the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix is organized on foreign territory, it is powered by French electrical installations.
As Franceracing.fr reminds us, the Monaco Grand Prix “is often the subject of protest movements or strike threats. In 2022, the Nice taxis were already threatening the event, or even the employees of hotels and restaurants of the Sea Bathing Society that demanded a salary increase”.
Finally, even beyond the issue of retirement, “all sectoral negotiations, whatever the issue, will be placed under the surveillance of the workers on strike”, warn the CGT Energie unions, in order to “win all our demands and much more than the withdrawal of the pension reform”.
Source: BFM TV
