Barthélémy Philippe, edited by Alexandre Dalifard / Photo credit: SAMUEL BOIVIN / NURPHOTO / NURPHOTO VIA AFP 06:14, 06 June 2023, modified at 06:21, 06 June 2023

This Tuesday, the fourteenth day of mobilization against the pension reform takes place throughout France with 250 rally points and up to 600,000 demonstrators expected. Faced with the decision of the President of the National Assembly, who is preparing to prevent the vote on the repeal of the reform, the unions will seek to fight back.

This is the fourteenth day of mobilization against the pension reform. 250 gathering points throughout the France, up to 600,000 demonstrators expected, and very low rates of strikers in transport and the civil service. A mobilization that looks like a baroud of honor for the unions and opponents of the reform. Workers' organizations know that the President of the National Assembly is certainly preparing to prevent the vote on the repeal of the reform on the grounds of unconstitutionality. This makes them all the more furious that they had bet a lot on the bill of the Liot group. They will seek to retaliate against what they assimilate as the ultimate provocation of the government in the sequence of retreats.

"We're not going to sit idly by"

"We are not going to sit idly by," promises a union leader. At the very least, employee organizations should communicate to denounce an unacceptable refusal to vote. Then it will be necessary to take the time to build a response strategy. "The inter-union will have to respond to the height of the democratic aggression that will have been perpetrated. As long as there has been no vote in the National Assembly, we will consider that this law is definitively illegitimate and therefore we will continue to guerrilla the government so that this law does not apply because it will definitely have no legitimacy, "says François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC.

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This guerrilla could be played out in the judicial field and more precisely before the Council of State. "The idea is really to prevent by all means the application of this reform. So whenever we have the opportunity to challenge the implementing decrees, we will do it. We will set up a legal watch for this," promises Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT. On the other hand, the union leaders refuse to call for a vote of censure against the government. "Our role is to defend the workers," said one.