Several thousand lawyers, accompanied by care professionals (doctors, nurses etc.) or air transport (pilots, hostesses, stewards), all opposed to the "universal system" of pensions wanted by the government, began to protest on Monday. Paris to defend their "autonomous regimes", noted an AFP journalist.
"A pension not milking"
The procession of black robes, also dotted with some white blouses, left shortly after 14 hours from the Place de l'Opera towards Nation, at the call of the National Council of Bars (CNB), joined by other organizations professionals in the SOS Retraites collective. At the sound of whistles and sirens, protesters waved placards on which one could read "a retreat not the slave trade" or "more expensive retirement precarious justice".
"Black dresses, white coats, uniforms you're all here, you're thousands, well done!", Welcomed NBC President Christiane Feral-Schuhl, adding, "we have never been so numerous". "We represent 700,000 professionals who care for, defend, transport and want to live their lives, and live from retirement." We say no to the nationalization of our autonomous regimes, not to the universal system, "she said. .
An event coupled with a hearings strike that promises to be well followed
"We are not special diets, our funds are beneficiaries and we intend to keep them", for its part proclaimed Dr. Jerome Marty, President of the French Union for Free Medicine (UFML). "We will be out for a year if necessary," warned Ghislaine Sicre, president of Convergence Nurse. In their line of sight, the future "universal system" of pensions advocated by High Commissioner Jean-Paul Delevoye, which will result in a sharp increase in contributions of self-employed and, with the disappearance of their coffers, a "transfer" "of their financial reserves.
This event is doubled by a hearings strike which promises to be very followed, with almost all 164 French bars "mobilized" according to the Conference of the bâtonniers. To contain the slingshot, Prime Minister Philippe Philippe instructed Jean-Paul Delevoye to meet "by October 15" the representatives of the 42 regimes turned off, to "draw up an inventory" and "set a timetable of work ". Jean-Paul Delevoye and the Keeper of the Seals Nicole Belloubet will receive on Tuesday morning the officials of the CNB, the CNBF and the Conference of the bâtonniers.