It is unlikely that the day of strikes, demonstrations and blockades scheduled for tomorrow March 7 will be enough to get France out of the social imbroglio in which it has been plunged for months and even years on the question of pensions.
All losers
The fault lies primarily with the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who on this subject as on so many others, gives the impression of not knowing what he wants.
If you don't know what you want
,
the saying goes, you probably won't get it.
In 2019, it was above all a question, during the previous failed attempt at reform, of modifying the rules of the system to make it fairer: it was the reform by points, the idea of which came from the CFDT.
Hastily abandoned because of the opposition of the other unions, it gave way, after much procrastination, to the current project, centered on the legal age of departure, with the aim of saving the pay-as-you-go system, threatened by the continuous increase in the number of beneficiaries…
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