After almost three months, the mobilization should remain substantial, although in decline compared to the last day of action, a week ago. The authorities predict between 400 and 600,000 people on the streets in France, compared with the 570,000 recorded on April 6 and 740,000 on March 28.
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The inter-union decided to organize this show of force, the twelfth in three months against the government’s pension reform project. In Paris, the procession sets off from the Place de l’Opéra to reach the Place de la Bastille. In Toulouse, Nice, Le Havre or Rennes, the processions had already started to parade this Thursday morning. In Quimper, the procession ironically marked ” a minute of silence for democracy “.
On the strike side, the disturbances promise to be much less significant than at the start of the mobilization in air, rail and metro transport. But the movement is not weakening in high schools and universities, several of which were again blocked Thursday morning, for example in Lille.
Little participation in National Education
The Ministry of National Education identified at midday around 5% of teachers on strike this Thursday in the academies who are not on vacation. The unions do not have estimates because of the vacancies in Zone A, which make the figures difficult to compare according to them.
In energy, the entrance to the Feyzin refinery, near Lyon, was blocked for two hours this morning by a hundred union activists. A filter dam has also been set up at the Gravelines nuclear power plant. Overall, the employees of the French refineries mobilized without, however, massively disrupting the activity of the sites.
The CGT has also called the Parisian garbage collectors to a new renewable strike. The movement of garbage collectors, who did not pick up trash for three weeks in March in the French capital, was one of the most spectacular aspects of the crisis.
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