While the mobilization against the pension reform experienced a slowdown on Thursday, January 16, targeted actions were carried out on Friday, January 17, during the 44th day. The headquarters of the reformist union of the CFDT was notably invaded in a "violent" manner, according to its secretary general Laurent Berger.
"A few dozen individuals broke into the premises of the confederation" CFDT in Paris at midday and "verbally and physically attacked employees", denounced in a tweet the secretary general of the first French union, favorable to the universal pension system by points, denounced by the strikers.
"We condemn this act and we will not be intimidated," he added. Questioned by AFP, the CFDT estimated that it was an action of the "SNCF-RATP coordination", born at the first evocations of an unlimited strike, in October.
Culture employees still mobilized
Earlier in the morning, more than a hundred demonstrators blocked the entrance to the Louvre pyramid by waving flags and chanting: "We will go until the withdrawal!". They called on tourists massed in front of the security barriers to join the movement: "Tourists with us!" - without success, even attracting a few boos in return.
The Paris Opera, which has accumulated cancellations of shows since December 5, warned its spectators that the performance of the performances "from January 17 to 22 could be called into question".
Culture employees remain mobilized with a call from the CGT spectacle to demonstrate during the vows of the Minister of Culture for the profession, Monday, January 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Library of France (BNF).
SNCF traffic will be further disrupted this weekend by the strike but should see a further improvement with more TER (nine out of ten) and Transilien (eight out of ten) in circulation. The TGV service will be "almost normal", announced management.
Shortage of milk
The overall rate of strikers at the SNCF, which rose to 10.1% on Thursday for the sixth day of national inter-professional mobilization, fell again to 4.6% on Friday. It was highest (55.6%) on the first day of the unlimited strike, December 5, and lowest Monday at 4.3%.
The strike was less observed this week in the energy where, according to the Ministry of the Ecological Transition, only half of the refineries knew Thursday of disruptions of their expeditions. But the ports and docks had taken over.
The "dead ports" operation launched by the CGT until Thursday evening has already resulted in shortages of certain fresh products - milk, cheese or ham - in supermarkets in the overseas territories, noted l AFP.
At the Banque de France, the strike movement launched on Monday 13 by several unions, including the CGT, continues on several sites. At the fiduciary center of La Courneuve, it concerns a dozen agents, the money operators having resumed work.
According to Pascal Gabay of the CGT Banque de France, "the movement will spread to fund carriers (who supply distributors), especially in Île-de-France".
The lawyers do not disarm more, with actions almost everywhere in France for the formal hearings of re-entry of the courts of appeal.
Nearly 300 lawyers observed on Friday in Caen a minute of silence. In Orleans, they hung black balloons on the gates of the courthouse and in Bourges, they sang "Bella ciao", before throwing their dresses on the ground. In Blois, the bar organized a breakfast outside the Courthouse.
A hundred lawyers observed a silent sit-in in Lyon, shortly before the hearing on the last day of the trial of ex-father Preynat, accused of pedophilia. In Grenoble, their counterparts formed a hedge of reception for the authorities invited to the re-entry hearing of the court of appeal.
The intersyndicale (CGT, FO, Solidaires, FSU, CFE-CGC and youth organizations) called for new actions and demonstrations next week, with a 7th day of interprofessional mobilization in high point, Friday, January 24, on the occasion of the presentation of the pension reform project in the Council of Ministers.
With AFP
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