Pensions: electricians, garbage collectors, sewer workers and railway workers gathered in front of the Eiffel Tower

Electricians, gas workers, garbage collectors, sewer workers, railway workers: some 200 employees from different trades gathered Thursday at midday in front of the Eiffel Tower, on the Parisian forecourt of the Trocadéro, to show that they were in “one sideagainst the government’s pension reform project. “For all workers and for a better world, even if Macron does not want it, we are here“, shouted the demonstrators in the plumes of smoke, behind a banner”Pensions, special diet for all“, in reference to the special regime for electricians and gas workers and that of RATP agents, threatened with abolition by the government project.

“The idea is to show that the opposition (…), it is massive, it is not fair during the classic call days in inter-union and interpro“Said Arnaud Baret, CGT Enedis Paris union representative and one of the organizers of the event. The reform projectaffects us all, so it couldn’t be more logical to mobilize and go beyond the logic of our sectors“said a young garbage collector who wished to remain anonymous. “Whether we are a gas worker, garbage collector, electrician, postman, we are all members of the same camp and we all need to fight back collectively and win new rights.“, he added.

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For the sequel, “the idea is to go on a renewable (strike)“, continued Arnaud Baret, a mode of action “complicated to set up“: “We are coming out of quite a few months of struggle, both in the electricity and gas industries and in other sectors of activity, at the end of 2021 and in 2022, so it is difficult to start again in other movements“. The action, which took place in a good-natured atmosphere for an hour, dispersed by itself calmly, without the intervention of the police, AFP noted.

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