Pensions in France: the intersyndicale calls for mobilizations Tuesday after 49.3

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Union organizations opposed to the pension reform call for mobilizations Tuesday, March 3 to protest against the use of article 49.3 of the Constitution. For the inter-union, this recourse of the government is "new proof" that the government wants "to force through its project of social regression".

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This Saturday, March 28, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced that he will make use of article 49.3 of the Constitution which allows the adoption of a legislative text without a vote. In a joint press release from CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, FSU and Solidaires, high school student organizations Fidl, MNL, UNL and Unef students declared on Monday March 2 that 49.3 " demonstrates the government's impotence to to answer the serious and legitimate questions of parliamentarians about this incomplete, very approximate project, with many unknowns ”.

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The CFE-CGC, which participated in some of the inter-professional days organized by the inter-union since December 5 to protest against the pension reform, did not call for mobilization on Tuesday. But she co-signed the joint press release and the analysis on the use of 49.3.

The unions calling for mobilizations plan to " multiply everywhere locally rallies from Monday, March 2, and to organize demonstrations outside the prefectures and sub-prefectures on Tuesday, March 3, including by resorting to strikes ."

Two separate censure motions were tabled by the opposition. They should be debated " a priori Tuesday " in the National Assembly. If they are rejected, the reform aimed at creating a “universal system” of point-based pensions will be considered adopted. This is a likely scenario because the government has a comfortable majority in the assembly.

Even if the National Assembly could not finish debating, the text will still be debated in the Senate in April. The upper house, dominated by the right, does not authorize the use of 49.3. Final adoption is therefore expected for the summer.

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