"We will leave people with small pensions" after lawyers, the RATP or Force Ouvrière, CGT militants marched by thousands Tuesday, September 24 throughout France against the reform desired by the executive, with a strike movement which caused some disturbances in transport.

The mobilization gathered on Tuesday "150 000 demonstrators in all France", with "166 places of events", welcomed on BFMTV its general secretary, Philippe Martinez, considering that it is "a good beginning".

In solidarity, the FSU and the Unsa-Ferroviaire joined the call to demonstrate launched in mid-July by the CGT solo at the time of submission of the report of the High Commissioner Retirement, Jean-Paul Delevoye. The plan is to merge the 42 existing plans into a single point system by 2025.

In Paris, a count realized by Occurrence for a media collective, including AFP, has identified 12,300 demonstrators.

In Marseille, 3,700 demonstrators according to the police headquarters, CGT flag in hand or wearing the chasuble of the union, gathered on the Old Port. "We are putting to death a system that our elders built with the National Council of Resistance (...) I see people regularly return to work in retirement because they can not make ends meet ", testified Catherine, manager at the CPAM Bouches-du-Rhone.

"We are denying all our basic social rights!" Joëlle Erdmann, general secretary of the CGT Mosaïque, educator of mentally handicapped children in Strasbourg. "We have difficult jobs in medico-social, we can not work more to earn more".

"A project made to save money"

In Paris, the CGT received reinforcement from the youth organizations Unef and UNL. "This is a project to save money, such as the reform of unemployment insurance," said Philippe Martinez, Secretary General of the CGT.

For the first time, bike delivery people from platforms like Deliveroo marched at the invitation of the organizers. The unsuspecting leader of the Assembly, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, made a brief incursion into the demonstration and went to meet them.

As a result of a call to strike CGT-Cheminots and SUD-Rail, traffic was disrupted at the SNCF, which provided for the circulation of almost all TGV but two Intercity trains out of five, three out of five TER and a Transilien on two on average.

In Nice, there were no buses or trams and a thousand people protested according to the police. Of the same source, they were 3,200 in Lyon, 1,800 in Le Havre (3,000 according to the CGT), 1,300 in Rouen (2,000 according to the CGT), 1,400 in Nantes (2,000 according to the CGT), 1,200 to Rennes, 1,350 in Lille according to the prefecture, 1,300 in Bordeaux (2,500 according to the organizers), 800 in Strasbourg, 850 in Grenoble.

The government plans to vote the pension bill by July 2020, after a new citizen consultation.

The unions of the RATP, which managed a massive strike on September 13, are preparing for a new mobilization from December 5, which has already joined the SUD-Rail Federation.

With AFP