" Macron robber of little old people ", " social climate in overheating: 49 ° 3 ", " with Macron is trash life ". These are the slogans posted Tuesday in the Parisian procession during this new day of mobilization against the pension reform. The trade unions opposed to the text called for mobilizations to protest against the use of article 49-3 of the Constitution, " new proof " that the government wants to " force through its social regression project ". The procession, made up of teachers, railroad workers, cleaning agents and nursing assistants in particular, set off around 2 p.m. from Place de la République towards Place de la Madeleine.
For Arnaud, railway worker at the SNCF present this Tuesday and mobilized since the beginning of the movement, 49.3 is a “ denial of democracy ”. “ We have been mobilized from the start, we went on strike for two months. We are on weekly actions. Even if the next action was scheduled for March 31, it was too long, we had to go back to the street before. Tonight I work but I wanted to be there today. And whatever the case, we will not let go , ”he explains. " Coronavirus, the fever rises to 49-3 ", " we will go until withdrawal ", " strikes, blockages, Macron releases ", " the young in the galleys, the old in misery, of this society, we don't want it ”, we heard slogans. Some two hundred young anarchist militants stood upstream from the procession with the cry of " the street is ours " and " everyone hates the fachos ".
" The people were taken aback, as the government sought to take the whole of the French by surprise in the late afternoon on a Saturday (note, by announcing the use of 49-3) , while France is polarized on the coronavirus. It forced us to react quickly, obviously it doesn't leave people much time to go on strike, ”said Catherine Perret, number two of the CGT.
The same goes for Force Ouvrière, through the voice of its general secretary Yves Veyrier: “ Everyone was taken aback on Saturday when we discovered by chance, surreptitiously, this absolutely incomprehensible decision. The call for March 31st remains, but we could not have remained at gunpoint in this context . ” " Before March 31, we will have to continue to take action (...). There is a very large anger and a feeling of helplessness among the employees, a feeling of very great contempt, of denial of democracy ”, judged Benoît Teste (FSU).
