Back in video on the 2nd mobilization in Toulouse
This Tuesday, January 31, between 34,000 and 80,000 people, according to police or union sources, gathered in Toulouse for the mobilization against the pension reform. Recall that when the mobilization of January 19they were between 36,000 and 50,000 according to these same sources to have beaten the pavement of the Pink City.
From Saint-Cyprien to Jean-Jaurès, the procession which gathered at 10 a.m. this morning made the walls of Toulouse vibrate with his traditional protest songs. Employees, executives, self-employed, in the public or private sector, all come back to the government that they refuse to work longer and how much they abhor its reform reform project.
In the procession Théo, freelance graphic designer, confides to us: “ I don’t understand the urgency of this reform. I may be independent, I am also an activist and today I want to support this mobilization and tell the government that its reform cannot pass, that it will unfortunately have to do with us, with the street. » Alongside the workers describe themselves united unionsready to continue the fight without respite, until the withdrawal of the reform, which we recall vis-à-vis the ratio of the retirement age to 64 years.
United unions
They appear united for this second national mobilization. With one voice, CGT, FO, CFDT, CFE-CGC, FSU, CFTC, Unsa and Solidaires came to say “no” to the government bill. Serge Cambou, general secretary of the FO 31 union tells us: “This reform is absolutely not justified because the revenue from the general scheme is not called into question. The Conseil National des Retraites simply indicates that there is a scenario in which it is possible, from 2030, for there to be a small drop in revenue. He continues: “We are telling the government to watch what is happening in the streets. 70% of French people are opposed to this project. When you have worked for 42 years, held arduous jobs, you also need to do something else that you have chosen for the rest of your life. »
For Ludovic Pinasa, secretary general of UNSA 31, the same observation: out of the question to touch the legal age of retirement. “We can see that a lot of people are setting up on sick leave at 60 because they can’t take it anymore. So, how to ask a mason, a tiler, a nurse to continue until the age of 64? It’s impossible. So we are here today, and we will still be on the streets tomorrow, until the government hears us,” he chants. The unions and demonstrators therefore show themselves more determined than ever to push back the government, which for its part, seems more than ever convinced of the need for its reform. As a reminder, the pension reform project, which is arrived in committee this Monday, January 30, kicked off the proceedings at the National Assembly. He will be examined in session from February 6.
Estelle Ben Mghira