The unions have again given an appointment to the opponents of the pension reform. Union sources announced Thursday, February 9 to Agence France-Presse (AFP) a new and sixth day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday, March 7, at the end of the school holidays, and when the government project will be debated in Senate.
“There will be a big day on the 7th and a special initiative on the 8th, in connection with International Women’s Rights Day”Yvan Ricordeau, national secretary of the CFDT, told AFP.
The inter-union has scheduled a press conference on Saturday February 11 at 11:45 a.m., at the Labor Exchange in Paris, to clarify its battle plan, ahead of the Paris demonstration for the fourth day of action.
The unions announced on Wednesday a fifth day of strikes and demonstrations, February 16.
Solidarity for a renewable strike from March 8
The third day of mobilization, which took place on Tuesday, brought together 757,000 people according to the Ministry of the Interior, “nearly two million” according to the organizers, figures below the previous days, January 19 and 31.
A fourth day is scheduled for Saturday throughout France, to allow all those who cannot demonstrate during the week to do so, explain the unions. The Parisian demonstration will start on Saturday at 1 p.m. from Place de la République in the direction of Place de la Nation, according to the CGT. The authorities are planning a little over two hundred actions on Saturday, bringing together 500,000 to 700,000 people outside Paris.
Interviewed Wednesday morning on BFMTV, the general secretary of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, said he hoped for a “very strong mobilization” Saturday and called everyone to “go and demonstrate massively with the whole family”.
The Solidaires union also plans to offer the intersyndicale “carry out the renewable strike from Wednesday March 8”according to an internal memo sent to AFP.