Three months that some employees are in the street relentlessly to demonstrate against the pension reform.
And who says strike, says no wages.
But to hold on, the strikers can count on the solidarity of the French.
Strike funds, online kitties, sale of "
goodies
"... to hold out over time against the pension reform and relieve the portfolio of the strikers, the unions have resources, a phenomenon that is gaining momentum.
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The financial question "
has always been a major problem: being able to hold on is something that obviously, in a balance
of
power, can be decisive
," historian Stéphane Sirot recently told AFP.
And all the more so in an inflationary context.
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What will happen for this new day of mobilization?
Around 5% of teachers are on strike Thursday in the academies which are not on vacation, as part of the 12th day of mobilization against the pension reform.
For this twelfth day of mobilization, the unions did not give an estimate of strikers, due to school holidays in zone A (academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon and Poitiers) , which makes the figures difficult to compare according to them.
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