It is a social autumn that those under 30 could not experience.
November 1995, a union tornado is brewing.
After a campaign on the theme of the "
social fracture
», Jacques Chirac, elected in May, operates a turning point in the budget.
Prime Minister Alain Juppé presents to the French a plan to make up for the deficits of Social Security and pensions.
The result is three weeks of massive demonstrations, heavy strikes, and total blockage of the country.
SNCF, RATP, France Telecom... Many sectors are affected.
The life of the country is almost suspended by the scale of the dispute.
A show of force which finally forces the executive to back down on the pension component, in mid-December.
28 years later, the file is back on the job.
And the union will to stall the government is, we can no longer, intact.
But is such a mobilization still possible?
In any case, this is the ambition of trade union organizations today.
19 and 31…
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