Accustomed to demonstrations, the Worms family was able, for the first time, to move in full force to the Old Port to demonstrate against the pension reform. “Saturdays make it easier: we don’t ask ourselves questions to organize ourselves”, note Carole, 43, the mother, elected various left in the village of La Bouilladisse. For the occasion, she wears one of the CGT red vests of her union representative husband. Roxane, 14, her secondary school daughter, did the same. She is demonstrating for the first time since the start of the protest. “Nobody talks about it in college.she regrets… The others would rather go out shopping than be there”. His brother Maxime, 16, participated in the blockade of his high school in Aubagne during the week. And feels the same lack of interest from his comrades. “There were about twenty of us… the others don’t feel concerned”, he observes.
Concerned, Jean-Pierre Worms, the father, 44 years old, CGT national delegate in the electricity and gas industry, is particularly so. The vote on the first article of the pension law in the National Assembly implies the end of the special pension scheme for its sector. “They talk to us about justice and we break our system, which is in surplus”, he gets annoyed. At his side, Florence Chodacki, 43, a friend of the family, abounds. She is a private employee and was unable to travel during the first demonstrations: “During the week, it’s complicated to leave my job. On Saturday, I take advantage of it, she assures as the Marseille procession, less dense than the first times, sets off.