The unions are planning a “powerful” mobilization against the pension reform.
The secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez even imagines "doing better" than in 1995 (against the "Juppé plan"), in a context where the ferments of anger are numerous.
"I have rarely felt so much discontent," confides Philippe Martinez at the microphone of RMC / BFMTV this Friday morning, underlining the existence of 200,000 signatures collected in 48 hours, on a petition against the reform project.
“I invite everyone to sign the petition,” he says.
The day before, the Prime Minister had called on the unions "to be responsible", not to "penalize the French".
Words that outraged the secretary general of the CGT.
“I find his remarks scandalous, reacted Philippe Martinez this Friday.
It is she who should have thought before launching this reform, she is the one who set the fire, it is not us.
All unions, and this is rare, have warned.
Let it assume responsibility for mobilization.
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The eight main unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU), in unity of action unprecedented for 12 years, have called for a day of strikes and demonstrations on January 19, hoping that it "gives the start of a powerful mobilization on long-term pensions".
“This is the first meeting, there will be others”
“On January 19, we need millions of people on strike and in the streets, he repeats.
I am for the workers to go on strike.
For the temporary workers, the precarious, it's complicated, their job is threatened, but some told me that they would come to protest during their rest.
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Philippe Martinez warns: this is only the beginning.
“It's the first meeting, that means there will be others.
There will be, I hope, several million strikers and demonstrators.
Because everyone is affected.
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About the concern of the French linked to the refinery strike, which could cause a fuel shortage like last autumn, the boss of the CGT retorts: “What worries is this reform.
That we lengthen the contribution period for long careers, that we do not regulate the employment of seniors, nor the pension gap between women and men.
That's what worries.
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