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Pension reform: the great unknown of social mobilization

2023-01-12T19:32:10.690Z


DECRYPTION – The government, which fears blockages in the transport and refinery sectors, wants to prevent a spark from igniting social anger.


This is one of the seers that the executive watched with anguish.

Thursday morning it started flashing bright red.

Two days after the presentation of the pension reform, the CGT unions in the oil branch called for several days of strikes, threatening

“if necessary”

to shut down the refineries from February 6.

Here again is the specter of uninterrupted queues of vehicles near gas stations, as the country had known last November during a movement to obtain wage increases.

Combined this time with strikes in transport, SNCF and RATP, the blockage in the refineries agitates the threat of a shutdown of the country.

There is a right to strike, there is a right to demonstrate

”, but “

it is also important not to penalize the French

”, reacted Elisabeth Borne, making a clear distinction between demonstrations and strikes.

If the executive does not fear the first, he worries on the other hand about the seconds.

Political determination versus union determination

Coué method or optimism…

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Source: lefigaro

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