Classes closed, trains canceled and numerous parades: the unions are organizing a third mobilization on Tuesday against the pension reform, maintaining pressure on the executive, but also the deputies who have just opened hostilities in the hemicycle.
United against the postponement of the legal age to 64, the eight main French unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU) want to continue to mobilize after having succeeded in putting more than one million demonstrators in the streets (according to the authorities) on January 19 and 31.
In parallel with the demonstrations, many sectors experienced strike movements, in the public as well as in the private sector, but there were fewer strikers on January 31 than on the 19th. What will happen for this new day of mobilization against government pension reform?
Le Figaro
takes stock throughout the day.
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At the SNCF
, the railway unions spoke of 36.5% of strikers on January 31 against 46.3% on January 19 (down 10%).
At EDF
, management has counted 40% of strikers, or 4% less.
In National Education
, a quarter of teachers are on strike, according to ministry figures, compared to 38% ten days ago.
For its part,
the FSU (Unitary Trade Union Federation)
has recognized a decrease: 50% of teachers on strike in primary schools (instead of 70%), 55% in colleges and high schools instead of 65%.
Fewer strikers expected among teachers
Due to the school holidays in zone A (Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers), fewer strikers are expected among teachers on February 7.
The FSU did not give figures for primary schools this time around.
At the universities of Rennes-2 and Jean-Jaurès in Toulouse, students nevertheless voted to block on Monday.
Strike extended Wednesday at the SNCF?
Traffic was once again very disrupted at the SNCF on Tuesday, but less than during the two previous days of action.
The secretary general of the CGT Cheminots, Laurent Brun, estimated Tuesday morning on Franceinfo that he wanted to "
increase the level of mobilization
" against the reform.
The railway unions did not call a strike for the fourth day of national action on Saturday, the first day of vacation for zone B (Aix-Marseille and a large arc from Brittany to Alsace except Ile- de-France), but the CGT Cheminots and SUD Rail want to extend the strike this Wednesday.
The mobilization does not weaken in energy
The mobilization remained strong in the refineries and fuel depots of TotalEnergies which, according to the CGT, counted 75 to 100% of strikers.
The management of the group estimates for its part that the rate of strikers
amounted
to 56% against 55% on January 31 and 65% on the 19th .
the direction, the strikers using modalities of action similar to those of the previous days.
"
There is no lack of fuel
" in the group's service stations, assured management, as on previous occasions.
“
Stocks in depots and service stations are at a satisfactory level
”.
On the electricity side, EDF strikers cut electricity production by nearly 4,500 MW between Monday and Tuesday, the equivalent of more than four nuclear reactors, but without causing any cuts.
Several power and nuclear power plants were affected, with "
high rates of strikers
" and "
filtering at the entrance to the sites
", according to Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT.
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