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Pensioners: unions call for demonstrations on March 24

2022-03-21T19:45:40.186Z


Trade unions are calling for an increase in retirement pensions to cope with the rising cost of living and health.


Revalue pensions, strengthen and

"humanize"

public services, especially in rural areas: an inter-union of retired people, including the CGT, FO or the SNES-FSU, called Monday for a day of national mobilization on Thursday.

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Retirees will be pounding the pavement in around twenty large cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon.

The Parisian procession will leave at 2:00 p.m. from Place de la Bastille to head for the Republic.

Inflation and the time for the balance sheet of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term motivated the inter-union to take to the streets, three months after the last day of national action for retirees.

“We don't want a bonus, but a real increase in retirement pensions

,” said Marc Bastide, secretary general of the UCR-CGT, at a press conference.

Faced with the rise in the cost of living, the inter-union called for the

"reindexing of pensions on the evolution of wages"

and a

"catch-up"

of the freezing of pensions.

The inter-union regretted the

“anti-retirement”

policies carried out, according to it, by the outgoing government.

"Retired people are only adjustment variables for controlling the budget

," said Marc Bastide.

“Autonomy Support”

The cost of health is singled out by pensioners' unions.

Among their grievances is the

“enormous”

increase in the price of complementary health insurance, which leads to the

“pauperization of retirees”

according to Marylène Cahouet, of the national office of the SNES-FSU.

Thus, the secretary general of the UCR-CGT called for the

“support of autonomy by Social Security, and the creation of a social service of autonomy.”

Unions and collectives of retirees are also asking the State to strengthen the presence of public services and reinvest in rural areas, to prevent retirees from finding themselves

“distraught”

by the digitization of procedures.

Strike at the RATP on March 25

The main trade unions of RATP agents are calling for a new day of strike on March 25 after a previous mobilization on February 28.

The unions are demanding a 3% increase in wages to "

cope with inflation and defend purchasing power in Île-de-France

" and dispute the 2.7% proposed by the RATP, saying that it is not It is actually only a real increase of 0.4%.

Another demand, the opening up to competition for bus networks, which is pushing organizations to mobilize to assert their disagreement.

Source: lefigaro

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