Pension reform: in Lyon, the CFDT is fine-tuning the last details before the mobilization

Jean-Luc Boujon (in Lyon), edited by Romain Rouillard 7:49 p.m., January 18, 2023

Corrugated cardboard, markers, spray paint and tape on a table.

On the side of the CFDT in Lyon, preparations are well underway on the eve of the big day of mobilization against the pension reform.

Gatherings are planned in more than 200 cities across the country.

Katia Beau, general secretary of the trade union confederation supervised the manufacture of the signs which will be used Thursday in the Lyon parade. 

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"So here, we have our banner 'for a fair and united retirement system, 64 years old is no'. And then we will also have this banner there, a little more humorous: 'Élisabeth, you go beyond the limits' “, she shows.

A good mood that is accompanied all the same by a great determination.

Outside, the activists prepare the truck equipped with a sound system which will parade at the head of the procession.

This is where the songs and slogans of this demonstration will start. 

"Something is happening" 

"It's the main truck with the sound system to get our messages across. It's an unfair reform. There is very strong dissatisfaction in companies and administrations. Ecully in particular but also the construction with Vinci. We really feel that there, something is happening", assures Sonia Pacaud, departmental manager of the CFDT.

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This Thursday, several thousand demonstrators are expected in Lyon.

With however the fear, on the union side, that the snowfall, announced for the morning, will deter some from coming to express their opposition to the reform.