Pensions: government raises its voice on the eve of a day of protests

If the trains and the subways leave, the anger remains. This Thursday, for the sixth time since December 5, opponents of the pension reform are called to take to the streets. How many demonstrators will they be in Paris and in France? Last Saturday, there were only 370,000 pounding the pavement, according to the CGT and 149,000 according to the Ministry of the Interior.

In transport, the rate of strikers falls. SNCF is planning this Thursday 8 trains out of 10 on the TGV and TER network and 4 out of 5 on Transilien. Same trend for recovery in Parisian transport. What start to delight the Prime Minister.

This Wednesday, Edouard Philippe, believing that the strike was "dead end" and had "only lasted too long" let go: "I will not be satisfied until all the users of the SNCF at the national level and the 'all public transport users in Ile-de-France will have returned to normal life. It's almost done! Almost, because if on the 43rd day of strike, the locomotive SNCF and RATP against the pension reform is almost stopped, the dissatisfied remain numerous.

VIDEO. Édouard Philippe: the strike at RATP and SNCF "has only lasted too long"

In the motley processions planned almost everywhere in France, the black dresses of lawyers and the white coats of the liberal medical professions should in any case be present. Again! Because if the government proposed this Wednesday to lawyers to "continue to benefit, as part of the universal retirement plan, from a fund specific to their profession", according to a press release from the Ministry of Justice, this arrangement is far from to have convinced the black dresses. And the independent professions behind them, united in the collective SOS pensions, who still believe they suffer double punishment.

“We will contribute more to receive less, says Christiane Féral-Schuhl, president of the National Council of Bars (CNB). And what will be the autonomy of our fund? None, or only that of offsetting the negative effects of this reform. "

The independents don't want to let go

The claim of the independents is clear: “Leave us our plans, they are well managed, surplus and do not cost the community a penny. So there is no question for them to integrate the future universal regime. "And let no one come and tell us that we are not in solidarity," annoyed Féral-Schuhl. Each year, the lawyers' fund transfers 100 million euros to the general scheme, or 1,400 euros per lawyer. "

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Same cold anger on the side of physiotherapists, and François Randazzo, president of the Alizé union: “There is no progress for the independent professions. This government is in dogma. This reform is an increase in contributions by 5 income points. When you know that our profession has already lost 27% of purchasing power since 2000 due to inflation, it becomes unbearable. "

Dockers take over from railroad workers

Five days after the "temporary" withdrawal of the pivotal age, will this sixth demonstration against the pension reform be the last? As for the CGT, we still believe in it. The railwaymen were succeeded by the dockers. This Wednesday, a thousand passengers bound for Algiers were unable to board their ferry, moored in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), victims of the blockage of dockers.

"We have been on strike since Tuesday," said Tony Hautbois, secretary general of the CGT federation of Ports and Docks. We will decide on Friday, with the confederation, which means of action to use in the coming days. »The intersyndicale FO-CGT-CFE-CGC-FSU and Solidaires announced this Thursday evening a new inter-professional day of strikes and demonstrations on January 24, the day of presentation of the bill on the reform of the pensions in the Council of Ministers .

Shortly before, Matignon announced that the strike had already cost the RATP nearly 200 million euros and the SNCF 850 ​​million euros.