Since its approval on March 11, different unions have proposed indefinite strikes that paralyze the country in order to force the government to withdraw the controversial reform of the Pension Law
For the fourteenth time since January, this Tuesday, June 6, the unions called for a new day of action against the reform of the pension law, a month after the last great mobilization of May 1st. The first application decrees were published this Sunday, June 4, in the Official Gazette.
The unions do not lower their arms and that the reform, already approved, continues its course so that it can begin to be applied in September. Until then, 31 texts must be officially published. The first two were already published this Sunday.
The first is a decree on “the progressive increase of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years”, and the second on “early retirement, in particular for people with a long professional career”.
The publication, two days before the fourteenth day of mobilization on Tuesday, could contribute to mobilizing the troops, with a demonstration called by the inter-union for which the increase in the legal retirement age to 64 years is the main red line.
New battles in perspective in the Chamber
On Thursday, June 8, the deputies will examine a bill to repeal the reform, presented by the Liot parliamentary group, a small group of barely twenty deputies from very diverse ideological horizons. The project has been rejected in commission, but it will be the subject of new battles when it reaches the plenary session of the Chamber.
Thus, the social anger has not exhausted itself, and this new day of action may not be the last resistance that the executive has been waiting for so long. A day of action that should be a good indicator of the mobilization against the pension reform.
Strikes in transport and in schools
Demonstrations are expected in the main French cities, as well as disturbances in public transport, at airports and in schools. But they will be much lower, according to forecasts, than in the previous days. 90% of the trains will circulate, the metro will work normally. As for the classes, the impact that this strike may have is not yet known, since in secondary education there is no obligation to declare a striker in advance.
Regarding air traffic, the flight schedule has been reduced by 33% at Orly airport and by 20% at Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Nantes airports.
On Tuesday, June 6, about 250 actions are planned throughout France. They are expected to gather between 400,000 and 600,000 people, of which between 40,000 and 70,000 will demonstrate in the capital, according to authorities.
This figure is far from the record participation of March 7, 1.28 million participants, according to the police, but it is still high, after a highly mobilized May Day.
In total, 11,000 police officers will be deployed, 4,000 of them in Paris, the Interior Minister announced on Sunday, Gerald Darmanin.
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