Several city councils have announced actions for January 31, the day of the call for a general strike against the pension reform, so that municipal officials join the mobilization but also to protest against this measure. In Faches-Thumesnil (North), the LFI mayor Patrick Proisy even announced that he would not remove the strike hours from the salaries of his municipal agents.
So that “they can go to the demonstration in Lille in the afternoon during the strike on January 31, I decided that the hours of the strike would not be deducted from the salary after 2:00 p.m.”, tweeted.
Contacted, the consistory confirms this decision, assuring that “striking workers will not be penalized.” “This is the first time we’ve done this,” the mayor’s chief of staff told BFMTV.com. On January 19, the day before the mobilization, the LFI mayor of Grabels (Hérault) had already put the same system into operation, according to France Bleu.
“The situation is too serious”
Several other municipalities have taken initiatives for next Thursday. The socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, thus announced this Thursday that she would join the appeal launched by the head of the PCF Fabien Roussel symbolically close the councils on January 31 in solidarity with the mobilization against the pension reform.
“I respond to your call” to the “solidarity town halls”, said about France 2 Anne Hidalgo. “Of course there are public services that must continue, I’m thinking about the marital status, but the Paris council will be a solidarity council on the 31st, in solidarity with the social movement, the situation is too serious,” he added, saying that the government’s reform was “unfair and unjustified”.
“It is a pleasure to answer this call” by Fabien Roussel, also said on video Stéphane Denoyelle, mayor of Saint-Pierre-d’Aurillac (Gironde). “Already on the last day (of the mobilization of January 19, editor’s note) we closed our town hall, because for the first time in a long time, the vast majority of municipal service agents were on strike.”
“I hear mayors from the Île-de-France, from the north, from the Pas-de-Calais, from the south, from the Gironde say: we join this call for united mayors because we are also fed up with decreasing allocations, increasing bills and now it that falls on our municipal agents”, rejoiced Fabien Roussel Thursday at LCI.
“The support of the municipality to the movement against pensions”
Also in Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), the mayor of the city Denis Öztorun Ömür has decided to symbolically close his town hall, announcing a day of “dead town hall”. The same story in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“By closing the public services at noon, we say the support of the municipality to the movement against pensions and suddenly we allow all the agents of the public services to join the demonstration without loss of salary”, declares in BFM Paris Patrice Bessac, mayor communist. from the city.
After the mobilization on January 19, in which, according to sources, between 1 and 2 million people demonstrated against the pension reform, the unions hope to do at least as well on Tuesday.
Source: BFM TV
