The pension reform does not only put the government to the test.
The unions also play big in this affair, which, as under each presidency, will mark the culmination of the five-year term.
There was no need to wait for the presentation of Elisabeth Borne's project to predict the sequence of events, so institutionalized is the ritual: an escalation in indignation, then the threat of blocking the whole country.
In a Pavlovian reflex, the battalions of the CGT, SUD, FO, but also of the CFDT, which was believed to be moderate, are already getting ready to interrupt public transport, the distribution of fuel or courses at school.
With the civil service at the forefront, whose pension deficit is a bottomless pit, and the beneficiaries of special schemes,
who will keep their privileges after the reform.
The France of employees, craftsmen and traders, for its part, will once again have to deploy all its energy to…
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