Pension reform in France: a 14th and perhaps last day of mobilization on Tuesday

“A popular pressure”

Mr. Berger, who will leave office on June 21, however, seemed to acknowledge the defeat of the unions, saying that “of course […] the text will apply when the time comes”.

A fifteenth could protest day be decided after June 8th? Without excluding it, the number 2 of the CFDT Marylise Léon prefers not to answer for the time being. “The rest will depend on what happens in the National Assembly and the mobilization of June 6, which we hope will be massive,” she told L'Humanité on Friday.

The president of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier, had said in mid-May that June 8 would probably be “the last fight” of his union.

For his part, the coordinator of insubordinate France, Manuel Bompard called on Sunday 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 to repeal the retirement age at 64.

In any case, the government is trying to turn the page. The first two implementing decrees for the law promulgated in mid-April, the most important of which, the one gradually raising the legal age from 62 to 64, were published in the Official Journal on Sunday.

Mrs. let it be known that his union would track down any “legal loophole” to attack the 31 decrees.

After having received the unions within the framework of bilateral meetings on May 15 and 16, the executive plans to organize a ” multilateral meeting in the coming weeks to set (with employers and unions) a work agenda for the coming months,” Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told Ouest-France this week.

Without turning the page on pensions, the inter-union began to work for common proposals, moving from a “defensive” posture to a more “offensive” attitude, according to Simon Duteil (Solidaires).It widened its slogan of demonstration, calling on the employees to mobilize to “win the withdrawal of the reform” and “obtain social progress.”