hundreds of demonstrators during a torchlight march against the pension reform
Between 300 and 400 people experienced this Wednesday, echoing the demonstration of January 19 against the pension reform.
Between 300 and 400 people suffered on Wednesday against the pension reform during a torchlight march in the streets of downtown Rouen, an AFP journalist noted.
In a good-natured atmosphere despite the biting cold, and behind the flags of trade union organizations as well as a delegation from La France insoumise (LFI), the demonstrators sang slogans such as “the young people in the galley, the old in the misery”, “this society, we don’t want it” or even “It’s going to blow up, it’s going to blow up”.
“I am asked to die at work”
Erwan, 30, a high school teacher, had come to demonstrate with his company and his child because there is no imbalance in the pension system, it is the chairman of the pensions orientation council who says so. If you need money, you have to take it from the employers’ coffers,” he said.
“I am opposed to the report at 64, I am campaigning for a return to 60, to win new rights. I would like the general scheme to tend to align with the special schemes”, for his part declared Alex, 37 years years, elected CGT in Paluel, and he too came with his family.
Soline, 54, primary school teacher and SNUIPP union member, torch in hand, says she “studied a long time to pass the competition, years that will not be decided” and launches, bitter: “now I am asked to die at the work”.
The government adopted Monday in the Council of Ministers its accelerated pension reform its “determination” to go all the way without “giving up” the ratio of the retirement age to 64, despite a massive mobilization that opponents still hear amplifier .
The day of January 19 was a “massive success” bringing together more than two million demonstrators from the unions, more than a million according to the authorities, and new actions have already taken place, in particular for the day of January 31.