The unions call in particular to multiply the actions “around January 23”, day of the presentation of the reform in the Council of Ministers.
For the CGT, no question of offering a little respite to the government on its pension reform. Invited on Friday evening on BFMTV, Philippe Martinez promised new actions against the reform by the next major mobilization on January 31. “The inter-union met and proposed a new date for interprofessional mobilization, and by proposing to the departments, to the professions, to punctuate actions, mobilizations, during the 10 days which separate us from January 31“Said the CGT general secretary.
«We need highlights for everyone, but after that there are actions in the professions that will be carried out“, repeated the trade unionist, citing for example the oil sector or the railway workers. Even before the mobilization day of January 19, the oil branch of the CGT has indeed called for a strike for January 26. On the side of the railway workers, we do not rule out other mobilizations before and / or after January 31. “We will consult our bases. We consider that one action every 15 days is not necessarily enough“, declared Laurent Brun, secretary general of the CGT Cheminots, Friday on BFMTV.
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In a press release published on Friday, the CGT called on employees to participate, “from January 23“, at “all the local initiatives proposed by our organizations“. The union providesmeetings, public debates, rallies, torchlight processions and many more“. The intersyndicale, which brings together the eight main French unions as well as five youth organizations, also urged in a statement Thursday evening “to multiply the actions and initiatives everywhere on the territory, in the companies and services, in the places of study, including by the strike, in particular around January 23, day of presentation of the law to the Council of Ministers ». «All next week there will be actions, and we start on January 23“, confirmed on BFMTV Frédéric Souillot, secretary general of Force Ouvrière (FO).
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