Paris (AFP)

Entered into "resistance" against the pension reform, a hundred railway workers from the Gare du Nord, in Paris, voted Tuesday morning, in general assembly (GA), for the renewal of the strike against the government project, noted a AFP reporter.

In a "society where it is more and more difficult to live", where "the gap in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest is 13 years", as many "years that the rich are flying to the poorest, we have a thousand times right to be on strike and in the street ", estimated at the microphone of the AG Monique Dabat SUD-Rail union.

An "unlimited, unlimited" strike, chanted the participants in the GA, gathered outside the station.

"We will not let anything until the withdrawal of the reform" because the withdrawal, "it's the only watchword", assured a railway, thinking of the younger generations, "the next generation". It is necessary to go "to the end, until the withdrawal", added another striker, who pleaded for "coordination with the other sectors, the RATP, the teachers who are on strike reconductible".

After voting "the renewal of the strike until tomorrow (Wednesday) almost unanimously," said Monique Dabat, the railway workers crossed part of the North Station singing "public, private, even fight", "all together, general strike", or "to those who want to break pensions, railway workers respond resistance".

According to Emmanuel Grondein from SUD-Rail, at the Gare du Nord on Tuesday, "out of the 220 train drivers planned, only 10 were working", with the reinforcement of "twenty or so" reserve drivers from the SNCF.

On Tuesday, across the railway group, a quarter of the rail workers (24.7%) were on strike against the reform, more than Monday (17%) but significantly less than Thursday (55.6%), the first day the unlimited strike launched at the SNCF by the four representative unions (the CGT-Cheminots, the Unsa railway and SUD-Rail on the one hand, the CFDT-Cheminots on the other hand).

More than three quarters of drivers (77.3%) were strikers on Tuesday, unchanged from Monday, but down from Friday's high of 87.2% and Thursday's 85.7%. .

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