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In France, they are less talked about than the strikers in transport. But the liberal professions also intend to make their voices heard and their concerns regarding the pension reform.
This Friday, January 3, a collective called " SOS Retraites " which brings together sixteen liberal professions, doctors, nurses, even lawyers, calls to strike, that is to say that each profession will disengage one after the other until 9 , and the day of interprofessional mobilization. Like the employers' organization UNAPL, the collective anticipates a loss of income with the implementation of the reform.
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They had already mobilized in September. By tens of thousands, lawyers, doctors, nurses, pilots of the SOS pensions group thought they had been heard. But their absence in Emmanuel Macron's speech on December 31 rekindled their concerns.
Fears that their specifics will not be heard
The fear that their specificities, starting with autonomous pension funds, whose finances are deemed to be united and virtuous, will be siphoned off with the total overhaul of the system. For a myriad of professions, the reform provides for a single contribution rate for all 28.12%.
This would have negative consequences for example for health practitioners such as nurses, veterinarians. Their contributions will double. But if the contributions of doctors, notaries or insurance agents would drop, their pensions would also decrease without guarantees.
At a time when the government has yielded to the concerns of several professions such as pilots quite recently, the liberal professions, hitherto rather adept at concertation, are reluctantly embarking on the strike. They regret that only nuisance capacities allow their voices to be heard.
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