This was launched Wednesday morning by the inter-union bringing together the eight main French unions, united against the reform.
Before mobilizing in the street, the opposition against the pension reform is also manifested on the internet. Launched Wednesday morning, the inter-union petition against the government’s project quickly exceeded important levels. She had thus gathered more than 100,000 supporters in less than two days, and more than 200,000 in three days. A rapidly growing number.
Sunday evening, at 6 p.m., the text available on the Change.org site and called “Pensions: no to this unfair and brutal reform!“, thus gathered more than 345,000 signatures. A success, in the eyes of the unions: “In two days, the petition […] has already collected more than 200,000 signatures. It’s a sign“, welcomed the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, to West France, sunday. “There are all the ingredients for this mobilization to be very, very strong“said Philippe Martinez, of the CGT, stressing the success of the initiative of the trade unions.
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The text accompanying the petition summarizes the arguments of the unions, united against this reform which aims to postpone the legal age of departure to 64, with an accelerated extension of the contribution period. “This measure is unjustified: the report of the Pensions Orientation Council (COR) clearly indicates that the pension system is not in danger. There is no financial emergency“, he begins. 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 whose arduous jobs are not not recognized“, further believe the opponents. For the unions, this projectis the choice of injustice and social regression». «Other solutions are possible!“, they also say.
Wednesday morning, on France Inter, the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger had called “massivelyto sign this petition, launched by the inter-union bringing together the eight main French unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU). It is intended to accompany the mobilization against the pension reform, the start of which is scheduled for January 19, with a national call for mobilization and a strike launched by the unions and supported by the left-wing parties.
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