The Senate looked into the employment of seniors on Sunday and will continue on Monday, before a new mobilization on Tuesday of the unions which aim to put "France at a standstill" against the pension reform project.
The senators, mostly on the right, had previously voted for the extinction for the future recruits of several special regimes, including those of the RATP and energy companies.
On the night of Sunday to Monday, the Senate adopted article 2 of the reform project, on the creation of a "senior index" in companies, but only for those with more than 300 employees. They will be obliged to publish indicators on the employment of the oldest.
Parliamentarians will consider Monday morning the rapporteurs' proposal to create a new CDI formula to encourage the hiring of unemployed seniors.
If the debates are progressing step by step at the Luxembourg Palace, the social movement is moving "up a gear" in anticipation of the day of March 7, as called by the N.1 of the CGT Philippe Martinez in the JDD.
The unions intend to mobilize on Tuesday, the sixth day of action, even more than on January 31, when the police had identified 1.27 million participants and the inter-union more than 2.5 million.
According to police sources, between 1.1 and 1.4 million demonstrators are expected, including 60 to 90,000 in Paris.
Very strong disruptions are planned in urban and rail transport, all the unions having called for a renewable strike at the RATP and the SNCF, from Tuesday.
Only one in five trains will run for the TGV Inoui and Ouigo as well as for the TER. Traffic will be almost completely at a standstill on the Intercités and many disruptions are to be expected on the Transiliens.
For the SNCF, "there will be difficult days. (?) Things will probably not stop on March 7 in the evening or on March 8 in the morning", warned Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune on France 3.
In the Paris metro, most lines will see their circulation restricted mainly during rush hours, with the exception of lines 1, 14 and 4. For the RER, it will take one train in two to one in 5 depending on the journeys.
In the air, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) asked companies to give up 20 to 30% of their flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, in anticipation of the air traffic controllers' strike.
At the invitation of the CGT, other professions are called to a renewable strike: refiners, electricians and gas workers, garbage collectors, dockers, glass and ceramic workers...
The secretary general of the CGT Chemistry Federation, Emmanuel Lépine, said he was ready to "bring the French economy to its knees" to win the case.
In energy, the movement began on Friday with production cuts in several nuclear power plants such as that of Gravelines (North).
The teachers will also be on strike again, sometimes in a renewable way.
Other sectors such as the food industry are also experiencing strike calls.
The unions also expect more unusual initiatives: construction sites stopped, store curtains closed, tolls open, roads blocked...
From Sunday evening, truckers plan to disengage with the key to blockages of industrial zones or snail operations.
Other mobilizations are planned, in parallel with the debates in the Senate, which will end no matter what on March 12.
March 8, International Women's Day, will this year be placed under the sign of a pension reform deemed particularly unfair to them.
The inter-union will meet on Tuesday evening to determine the follow-up to be given to the dispute. The date of the 11th has been mentioned, without being confirmed at this stage.
On the majority and pro-reform side, the response is organized in dispersed order pending a speech by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne Monday evening on France 5.
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt defended Saturday in Le Parisien a "left-wing reform", "without losers".
On the sidelines of a visit to the Agricultural Show, his counterpart in Public Accounts Gabriel Attal raised his voice, denouncing strikes which will block the French "who toil". In unison, the boss of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, guest of the Grand Jury RTL - Le Figaro - LCI, judged Sunday "absolutely unacceptable to want to bring France to its knees".
Invited to Europe 1 on Sunday, Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, insisted that the reform was "essential" to finance the system.
The senators are in favor of examining another track. Despite the government's unfavorable opinion, they voted for the launch of a study on a mixed funded pension system, a request from the right which believes that it is the "best way to consolidate" the device.
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03/06/2023 01:12:48 - Paris (AFP) - © 2023 AFP
