The eight main French unions announced on Tuesday, January 10, a first day of strikes and demonstrations, January 19, to protest against the government’s plan to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years old.
Pension reform: seniors still pushed out
This first day must “gives (r) the start of a powerful mobilization on long-term pensions”say in a joint press release these eight unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU), whose general secretaries and presidents met at the Labor Exchange on Tuesday evening.
The whole of the left, from the socialists to France Insoumise via the ecologists, called, in the process, to rally it. “On January 19, all mobilized in the street”tweeted communist leader Fabien Roussel.
“We call to join the Intersyndicale”added MP Eric Coquerel (LFI) on BFM, as did Pierre Jouvet, spokesperson for the PS. ” Obviously. My sneakers are ready »declared the national secretary of EELV Marine Tondelier to AFP.
“Nothing justifies such a brutal reform”
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Tuesday the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 by 2030, for “guarantee the balance of the system in 2030”with an acceleration of the increase in the contribution period.
The unions had warned for a long time that they would oppose any decline in the retirement age, to 64 or 65 years.
The oppositions are indignant after the presentation of the pension reform deemed “unfair”
“This reform will hit all workers hard, and more particularly those who started working early, the most precarious, whose life expectancy is lower than the rest of the population, and those those whose difficult jobs are not recognized”they again denounced in their press release on Tuesday.
“The pay-as-you-go pension system is not in danger, nothing justifies such a brutal reform”they write.
