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A protester opposed to the pension reform in Paris on January 4, 2020. REUTERS / Christian Hartmann

Édouard Philippe and the social partners are meeting on Friday 10 January for a new meeting intended to discuss the CFDT's proposal to organize a financing conference, but before that this Thursday, the CGT and FO called the French to demonstrate once again against the pension reform project.

The scale of the mobilization will be an indicator that all the protagonists of the conflict will watch very closely. The unions and especially those who demand the withdrawal of the project will test their ability to last a strike which will be in its 36th day, and therefore to continue the standoff with the government which has promised to carry out the reform to its end.

" There, it's back to school. So, we are confident on the level of mobilization with the idea that it had to be effective to effectively boost on a large mobilization and which shows the determination of the employees, explains Cécile Gongard-Lallane, the delegate of the Solidaires union union. The CFDT anyway, we do without from the start basically. So, at the level of the intersyndicale which calls for the withdrawal of the project, the CFDT is not in it, and that did not prevent massive mobilizations. We don't have any problems with that anyway ”.

The number of protesters scrutinized

Also on the executive side, the number of demonstrators will be scrutinized on the eve of a meeting in Matignon which will show whether a compromise is really possible with the so-called "reformist" unions which have demanded the disappearance as a prerequisite of the pivotal age.

A negotiation in which the executive expects nothing from hard unions, including the CGT. During his vows to the French, Emmanuel Macron made it clear when he spoke of a compromise with the unions “ who want it ”. The target is first and foremost the CFDT of Laurent Berger with which the Élysée hopes for the “ crystallization of an agreement ”, in other words the basis for a compromise before January 24, the date on which the pension reform project must be presented to the Council of Ministers.

It remains to be seen whether an agreement in principle with these unions will be enough to put an end to a strike that broke the duration records.

It should start with us normally. It feels like they are not taking our job into consideration. It's incomprehensible.

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