Christopher Faleyras 11:21 a.m., January 26, 2023
While strikes have resumed in the energy sector, a few days before Act II against the pension reform, high school students also want to join the movement.
At the microphone of Europe 1, the national delegate in charge of high school life at Fidl, Gwenn Thomas-Alves, returned to the objective of mobilizing young people.
No time to wait, the CGT is accelerating.
The union is calling for a strike to resume this Thursday and Friday in the energy sector.
Refineries, power plants, dams... Production drops to be expected, but without power cuts, reassures the plant.
A warm-up lap before the day of January 31.
Next Tuesday, act II of the mobilization against the pension reform.
"We don't want to see our parents working until they are 64"
A call also heard by the high school student unions, which in turn announce blockages from Monday.
"The objective is very simple, it is to be able to show that high school students are fully part of this mobilization", underlines Gwenn Thomas-Alves, the national delegate in charge of high school life at the Independent and Democratic High School Federation (Fidl ).
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“We consider that this is a reform that is antisocial. We do not want to see our parents working until the age of 64. We want to fight against this reform, even for us as high school students. currently has 18% unemployment among young people and if we raise the legal retirement age, it will just increase this figure", explains the national delegate of Fidl at the microphone of Europe 1.
According to him, the movement could also gain momentum.
"We can see that all the regions are gradually starting to take ownership of these issues. Even overseas, we have a local committee and I think it's a mobilization that will be national and not just metropolitan", concludes Gwenn Thomas-Alves.