During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the government published in the Official Journal the first two implementing decrees for the pension reform, promulgated last April, the most important of which is gradually raising the legal age from 62 to 64 years old. Which does not seem to have undermined the motivation of the inter-union: accompanied by youth organizations, it calls for a fourteenth day of mobilization this Tuesday, June 6.
“So far, we have thwarted all the predictions. It’s been six months since the inter-union has been mobilized, it’s huge. The consequences will depend on the level of mobilization on Tuesday and the vote on June 8”, announced Sophie Binet in the columns of JDD this Sunday. The new boss of the CGT also explains in particular that a sufficient level of mobilization would have the power to make the government bend: “there is still time” for the President of the Republic to “find his reason and renounce this reform”.
Numerous mobilizations
In total, trade unions and youth organizations are announcing some 250 actions across the country. They should bring together between 400,000 and 600,000 people, including 40,000 to 70,000 in the capital, according to the authorities. In Paris, the event will leave the Place des Invalides at 2 p.m., heading for the Place d’Italie. The leaders of trade union and youth organizations will hold their press point in front of the National Assembly.
Strikes are also announced in electricians and gas as well as in rail and air transport, with the consequence in particular of the cancellation of a third of departures from Paris-Orly. Same story on the side of teachers’ unions, which have called for the work to be stopped.
In parallel with this call for mobilization, the inter-union again asked the deputies to vote on the Liot group’s bill canceling the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years. This text, notably carried by the centrist deputy Charles de Courson, will be discussed by the National Assembly on Thursday June 8. But the vote could turn in favor of the majority which emptied the bill of its substance last Wednesday, in particular by deleting the article relating to the age measurement.
Vote the draft withdrawal
And if amendments have been tabled to restore this article, the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet has already warned that she would invoke Article 40 of the Constitution to declare them inadmissible. A statement that angered Sophie Binet, for whom such a gesture would be “a pure democratic scandal”.
Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of La France insoumise, called on CNews to “increase the level of popular pressure” on June 6 to convince the President of the Assembly not to oppose the examination of the measure repeal of retirement at age 64.
Will this fourteenth day of mobilization be followed by a fifteenth? The president of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier, said in mid-May that June 8 would probably be “the last fight” of the union organization. In general, the inter-union is already thinking about post-retirement. She has broadened her slogan of demonstration, calling on employees to mobilize to “win the withdrawal of the reform” and more broadly “to obtain social progress”.