If the summer was finally not as hot as expected, the return should be it. In any case, the unions will do everything in this direction and plants already sharpening their weapons for the looming battle over pensions. "We feel strong enough discontent in the opinion," says Jean-Claude Mailly, secretary general of TF. The situation is still difficult in terms of employment and purchasing power. And then there's the pension reform that does not pass. One has the impression that the government is sailing to and try to solve problems by tapping the employees. "
In the crosshairs? The great day of mobilization unit of September 7, the day of commencement of the review of the pension reform in the Assembly.The goal is to do better than at the last day of protest and strike, June 24, where between 800,000 and 1.9 million French citizens – according to figures for the police and the CGT – marched to four corners of the Hexagon to protest against the project led by Eric Woerth.The unions have also worked hard this summer to convince the French to continue to fight against a reform they consider "unfair and ineffective": CGT visited factories and businesses to inform employees who do not go on holiday, the CFDT has toured throughout France with its green bus to entice young people to their cause, FP has preached the good word by flooding the beaches of postcards with the message clear: 'Holidays is great, retirement at age 60, too! "…
Heavy disruption to transport
A strategy that should be paid for, in the opinion of all experts, the mobilization of September 7 should be followed despite its very early in the schedule back.Strong perturbations are already announced in public transport, especially in the SNCF and the RATP house where unions have filed strike notice sometimes renewed. "Nicolas Sarkozy has skillfully diverted attention during the summer by returning to the front of the media spotlight the issue of security and forcing us to react," observes Lawrence Berger, the national secretary of the CFDT labor. It played well strategically, but it will not prevent a strong mobilization on September 7, "says he.
The challenge remains to prepare the post-September 7. The Inter meets on Monday evening in a Parisian suburb, the headquarters of the FSU, not only to capture passwords and goals of the mobilization of September 7, but will be talking about for him."A single event, unless it is huge, not enough to reverse the government concedes Jean-Claude Mailly. If you want to succeed, there should be a power stronger, and FOR will again offer the rapid organization of an inter-day strike to call for all unions. "Probably by mid-October , when the reform was passed by the Senate. A proposal that also appeals to the ultras in SOUTH but the CGT and CFDT still reject for fear of failure. "This is a high risk situation, because we can not afford to offer the French repeating events that would lead to nothing, nor call one-day strike which would result in not a failure," admits Lawrence Berger . The government, he, bet on a weakening of the movement and the resignation of the French.Top response on September 7.
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