On March 7, 2023, a strike movement announced as intense by the unions is planned. This day will be accompanied by many events. Here is where the processions already announced are.
On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, opponents of the pension reform will once again take to the streets. This day is a decisive moment for the mobilization, while the text will be examined in the Senate: the inter-union wishes to “put France on hold” if “the government and the parliamentarians remained deaf to popular protest”, declared Frédéric Souillot, general secretary of Force Ouvrière. Yvan Ricordeau, national secretary of the CFDT, also added that the unions wanted “to make March 7 the strongest day”, since the beginning of the mobilization which had started in the street on January 19.
The mobilization of February 16 brought together nearly 1.3 million people according to the unions against 440,000 according to the Ministry of the Interior. A figure down from the end of January, but the gatherings took place during school holidays. The day of March 7 therefore promises to be a moment of “social return”. It is the hope displayed by Philippe Martinez who declared on BFM TV wish to see “millions of strikers that day throughout France”.
Where are the protests on March 7, 2023?
Internet user takes stock of the various rallying points planned for this day of demonstrations on March 7. As usual, the CGT makes available on its site internet the various planned meeting points. The unions have not yet communicated on their course in all the cities, in particular in Paris.
- Bordeaux: Demonstration at 10 a.m. for a concert on Place de la Bourse and departure of the procession at 12 p.m.
- Marseille: Demonstration at 10:30 a.m. at the Old Port
- Lyon: Demonstration at 11 a.m. Manufacture des Tabacs
- Angers: Demonstration at 2 p.m. Place Leclerc
- Nantes: Demonstration at 11 a.m. at the water mirror
- Lille: Demonstration at 2:30 p.m. Porte de Paris
- Poitiers; Demonstration at 2 p.m. at the Champlain roundabout
- La Rochelle: Demonstration at 2.30 p.m. on the forecourt of the station
- Narbonne: Demonstration at 2:30 p.m. at the Narbonne theater
- Cannes: Demonstration at 10 a.m. in front of the SNCF station
- Annecy: Demonstration at 2 p.m. in front of the prefecture
The course of the event in Bordeaux
According to the union Gironde FOthe procession will leave at 12 p.m. from the Place de la Bourse, then taking the quai richelieu and the cours Alsace Lorraine to join the cours d’Albret then the Place Gambetta. Then the protesters will march on the Cours Georges Clemenceau towards the Quai du Maréchal Lyautey, thus returning to the Place de la Bourse.