The telescope was not planned. tuesday 1Ahem In October, three unions (the CGT, the FSU, Solidaires), as well as several youth defense movements, called demonstrations and strikes at the same time that the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, delivered his general policy statement to deputies. They had initially chosen this date thinking of giving voice from the beginning of the examination of the finance bill for 2025 in the National Assembly. But the text was delayed, with the laborious constitution of the new government team, and, meanwhile, the Matignon tenant chose the same place as the workers’ representatives to speak.
It doesn’t matter ! For the organizations that urge the population to take to the streets, the slogans initially imagined remain fully valid: repeal of the pension reform, increase in salaries and pensions, financing of public services, promotion of equality between women and men, development of industrial employment… offensive “It is a first sign”declared Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, in a daily interview The Parisian dated Monday, September 30: “It’s up to us to set the pace. »
Movement may not be very dynamic if we judge it in terms of its impact on activity. The SNCF expects a “normal traffic on TGV links”Tuesday. “Some traffic could be slightly affected on certain regional trains (TER, Transilien), as well as on certain intercity connections”Specifies the company. The RATP, for its part, assures that there is nothing to report “throughout the network” that explodes. In primary and secondary schools, the former Soviet Union has a “medium mobilization”pointing out that there was “small elevator” of the earth. On Monday afternoon, Murielle Guilbert, general co-delegate of Solidaires, mentioned “a little more than 150 places of demonstrations and concentrations” throughout France: about a hundred less, compared to the processions of 1Ahem-Can. In Paris, the crowd must leave early in the afternoon from Place Denfert-Rochereau to head towards the Bastille.
“Wait and see”
If this day of interprofessional action promises to be relatively poorly attended, it is due, in particular, to “wait and see” that prevails in the world of work, after the intense battle against the pension reform, in 2023, and then the multiple initiatives, in June and early July of this year, to prevent the arrival of the extreme right to power, he estimates Benoît Teste, Secretary General of the former Soviet Union. “A form of vagueness has been installedsaid. We also perceive a form of disgust towards politics. » Ingredients not very conducive to opening power struggles, at this stage, “but it can move very quickly”according to Teste.
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