This Wednesday, the petition gathered more than a million signatures. Screenshot / Change.org
This was launched on January 11 by the intersyndicale bringing together the eight main French unions, united against the reform.
Before mobilizing once again in the street on February 16 and March 7, the opposition against the pension reform is also manifesting itself on the internet. Launched Wednesday, January 11, the inter-union petition against the government’s project quickly exceeded important levels. She had thus gathered more than 100,000 supporters in less than two days and more than 500,000 in one week. Before taking a new step, this Wednesday morning: the text available on the Change.org site and called “Pensions: no to this unfair and brutal reform!“, now gathers more than a million signatures.
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According to Change.org, only two other petitions have exceeded one million since the launch of the platform in France in 2012, on the Labor law (1.35 million) and “for lower fuel prices at the pump(1.29 million). When she had crossed the bar of 500,000 supporters in January, the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger was pleased with Twitter : “let’s spread it (the petition, editor’s note) broadly to give it even more weight and make our opposition to 64-year-olds heard.The success of the petition was also found in the last day of mobilization on February 11, with 963,000 demonstrators throughout France, according to the Interior. Several records have even been broken in certain cities, such as Rennes, Toulon, Caen or Angers.
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The text accompanying the petition summarizes the arguments of the unions, united against this reform which aims to postpone the legal age of departure to 64, with an accelerated extension of the contribution period. “This measure is unjustified: the report of the Pensions Orientation Council (COR) clearly indicates that the pension system is not in danger. There is no financial emergency“, he begins. Reform “will hit all workers hard, and more particularly those who started working early, the most precarious, whose life expectancy is lower than the rest of the population, and those whose arduous jobs are not not recognized“, further believe the opponents. For the unions, this projectis the choice of injustice and social regression“. “Other solutions are possible!“, they also say.
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