If the unions are organizing a 14th day of national mobilization on June 6, in Marseille, associations and certain union branches are calling to take to the streets on Saturday for a demonstration “of all anger”.
Is a gap growing between the intersyndicale and certain demonstrators? The centrals are organizing a 14th day of national mobilization against the pension reform on June 6.
But locally, associations and certain union branches are calling on the French to take to the streets on Saturday, a month before then, for a demonstration “of all anger”. This is the case in several cities such as Lyon, Orléans, La Baule, but also in Marseille.
“We must not release the pressure!”
For this associative activist from Marseille, there is no question of waiting for the June 6 proposed by the inter-union. A strategy not offensive enough according to him. “I admit that when I saw June 6 fall, I thought that everyone was going to understand that we couldn’t wait for that date quietly, he explains. Don’t let up on the pressure!”
This activist will therefore be present on Saturday for this demonstration organized by associations and left-wing political parties. The unions are divided: only the CGT, FSU and Solidaires join the movement. But nothing to weaken union unity, assures Caroline Chevet, FSU departmental secretary:
“June 6 is an absolutely fundamental day at the call of the inter-union. We are preparing it now. But having successful days also means maintaining a mobilization, maintaining the flame, meeting regularly, continuing to say that ‘we’re not going to let go!”
Caroline Chevet, FSUat franceinfo
“We think it’s also important that we have local protests.” “It is one of the marks of this movement, she continues, which articulates big days of the national inter-union with an impressive mass of people in the street and inventive local actions, with variable geometry. We have casseroles right now, for example, and all sorts of action rallies rooted in localities. So for us, it’s an intermediate action.”
And to distinguish itself from the battle for pensions, this mobilization wants to broaden the demands, in particular with regard to wages and working conditions.
