LIVE – Pensions: the 1st primary union plans 50% strikers in schools on Tuesday

The Snuipp-FSU, the leading primary union, predicted on Monday that half of first-degree teachers would be on strike as part of the second day of national mobilization against pension reform on Tuesday.

“There is no surprise, we knew that we would not go up to 70% as during the first mobilization. But 50% remains a very good figure which shows who the protest movement against the reform of the pensions is settling in schools”, explained Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU.

Gérald Darmanin slammed Nupes on Saturday, accusing it of “left-wing laziness and bobo”.

“You are the right caress and gift”, replied the rebellious deputy Alexis Corbière during the examination of the text on pensions before the Social Affairs Committee.

The inter-union will meet at 6 p.m. this Tuesday, January 31, at the end of the day of strikes and demonstrations against the pension reform.

“Following the mobilization against the pension reform, on January 31, 2023, the trade unions and youth organizations will meet for an inter-union at 6 p.m. in the premises of Force Ouvrière”, in Paris, specifies the inter-union.

At the end of this meeting, a press conference will be held at 7:45 p.m. to clarify the conclusions of the discussions between the trade unions and any follow-up that will be given to the mobilization.

Gérald Darmanin announces from Marseille the figure of 11,000 gendarmes and police officers present this Tuesday on the ground to supervise the processions opposed to the pension reform.

4,000 police officers will be deployed in Paris. 10,000 police forces were mobilized during the first day of the strike on January 19.

Air France will cancel on Tuesday one in ten short and medium-haul flights this Tuesday, January 31. Long-haul flights are not affected, specifies the airline.

Responding to the DGAC’s request to reduce the flight schedule at Paris Orly by 20%, Air France plans to operate “all of its long-haul flights (and) 90% of its short and medium-haul flights” , the company told AFP

After Gérald Darmanin’s remarks this Sunday attacking elected officials who “want a society without effort, without work”, Sandrine Rousseau replied.

“To refer to the ‘work value’ is to refer to a form of ingratitude of people who would like to have a right, legitimate, to free time”, judges the Green MP this morning in the Social Affairs Committee.

The bill arrived this morning in the Social Affairs Committee. François Ruffin launched the reform project, accusing the government “of being at the service of finance rather than France”.

The co-delegate of the Solidaires trade union, invited on BFMTV to discuss the pension reform, explains that they were “very little received by the Elysée and Matignon.”

They were still able to warn them of the risk of social fracture which will increase, especially in the current context of inflation and “with the far right waiting.”

On the eve of a new strike against the pension reform, the deputy RN Laurent Jacobelli denounced on Sud radio this morning a bill “of social atrocity which breaks our system for fallacious reasons”.

After the hardening of the tone of the executive on the eve of the pension reform, the Minister Delegate for SMEs assumes.

“I rather see provocations on the far left for weeks to hear that it is urgent to do nothing”, judge Olivia Grégoire this morning on Europe 1.

The unions hope to mobilize widely this Tuesday, January 31, and their call should be followed. Traffic will be very disrupted at the SNCF and in public transport, while schools, refineries, town halls and even ski resorts will also be affected.

Find in our article the summary sector by sector of the strikes announced this Tuesday.

Marylise Léon, deputy secretary general of the CFDT, considers that the possible adjustment measures concerning women, seniors and hardship are “kinds of shock absorbers so that it is less brutal”.

“The postponement of the legal age is deeply unfair. It is not acceptable”, believes Marylise Léon, recalling that the heart of the reform remains that “gradually, everyone will have to work more”.

On BFMTV-RMC, Mathilde Panot welcomes the mobilization to come this Tuesday against the pension reform.

“We have a popular balance of power like never before”, declared the head of the deputies La France insoumise this morning on BFMTV.

“This is the first time that we have started a battle against pension reform (…) with so many people who have understood that this reform is not necessary”, still judges Mathilde Panot.

Guest of BFMTV-RMC, Mathilde Panot responds to Gérald Darmanin. The Minister of the Interior castigated the left and in particular the rebellious France this weekend. “Mr. Mélenchon’s strategy is to border the country,” he said.

Response from the boss of the LFI deputies:

“It’s provocation. The bordélisation is them”.

“They are in the process of carrying out a pension reform which the Pensions Orientation Council itself says is not necessary. They are responsible for the bordélisation. (They) want to put the country on fire and blood”, Mathilde Panot further advances.

“Tomorrow we will be strongly mobilized”, declared on BFM Business Marylise Léon, deputy general secretary of the CFDT.

We had a mobilization on the 19th, we will have another one tomorrow, the 31st which will I hope be as powerful as the previous one.

The rest of the mobilizations will be decided as we go along. “We will meet tomorrow evening to take stock of the mobilization and see what happens next”.

Marisol Touraine, former Minister of Social Affairs and Health during François Hollande’s five-year term, spoke about the government’s pension reform.

In 2014, she herself carried out a pension reform. It was then a question of gradually deferring the contribution period so that it eventually reached 43 years. The government now wishes to accelerate the timetable for this text, but also to postpone the legal age of departure to 64, against 62 currently.

For the first time, the former minister speaks on the government’s project at the microphone of France Inter.

“If this law is not changed, it risks reinforcing distrust in the country”, according to Marisol Touraine.

“For the unity of the country, national cohesion, we need a law that unites and not a law that risks becoming a passport for far-right populism,” she warns.

In his sights: the extension of the legal age of departure, which is “perceived as unfair”, which “presents a risk for the country”.

On BFM Business, Marylise Léon, deputy secretary general of the CFDT, considers that the pension reform “is only based on postponing the legal age, not on a notion of social justice as we wanted in 2019”.

“The demographic situation pleads for a global overhaul of the pension system, not an unfair adjustment,” said number 2 of the CFDT.

A statement that made his opponents react widely. Jean-Philippe Tanguy’s turn to respond to Élisabeth Borne on the postponement of the legal age.

“Where Madame Borne is hypocritical is that it was never negotiable. There were never really any discussions,” said the National Rally (RN) deputy from the Somme on Public Senate.

“From the start, Madame Borne has been there to apply Mr. Macron’s roadmap. She received the trade unions but she never listened to them or tried to create a compromise,” said the far-right elected official.

Fabien Roussel responds to Elisabeth Borne. This weekend, the Prime Minister said raising the legal age from 62 to 64 is “non-negotiable”.

“She provokes the French,” retorts the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF).

“It’s disrespectful, it’s calling into question democracy, parliamentary debate” and that amounts to “not hearing that three quarters of the French do not want” this measure, he continued.

“We want debate and show the French that there are other choices than to push back the retirement age”, also explained Fabien Roussel.

“There has been a ‘retirement’ effect in the last few days…” Thomas Mesnier is lucid: the partial legislative election in which he was a candidate for re-election “fell at a very bad time for a majority deputy.” Elected from 2017 to 2023, he was narrowly beaten (474 ​​votes) by René Pilato, rebellious candidate of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union.

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The weeks pass and the opposition of the French to the pension reform is increasingly clear. January 11, 59% of them spoke out against the government’s text according to an Elabe poll for BFMTV. A week later, this rejection increased to reach 66% of respondentsbefore finally moving on to 72% this Wednesday. No doubts: power is losing the battle of public opinion.

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Several town halls, including that of Paris, will remain closed this Tuesday taking several hours in solidarity with the movement against pension reform.

For elected officials, who cannot strike, this closure is authorized, under certain conditions.

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The pension reform wanted by the government is being studied from this Monday in the National Assembly, in the Social Affairs Committee. The text will then be examined in the National Assembly from January 6.

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A Prime Minister closes before the inter-union mobilization. Elisabeth Borne said this Sunday on franceinfo that the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 “is no longer negotiable”.

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Welcome to this live dedicated to the news of the mobilization against the pension reform of this Monday, January 30, 2023.