(Paris) The eight main unions in France have agreed on a new day of strikes and demonstrations against the pension reform, on Thursday February 16, the unions intending to maintain pressure on the government of Emmanuel Macron after the demonstration announced on Saturday .
“The inter-union meeting today decided on a national day of inter-professional action on February 16,” said Dominique Corona, deputy secretary general of Unsa, on behalf of the inter-union on Wednesday.
The third day of mobilization, Tuesday, brought together 757,000 people according to the Ministry of the Interior, “nearly two million” according to the organizers, figures below the previous days, January 19 and 31.
A fourth day is scheduled for Saturday throughout France. The Parisian demonstration will start on Saturday at 1 p.m. local time from Place de la République towards Place de la Nation, according to the CGT.
The unions hope for a stronger mobilization on Saturday, presented as the mobilization of those who could not come to demonstrate during the previous days of action, carried out during the week.
The first two days of demonstrations on January 19 and 31 had each time brought together more than a million protesters according to the police, more than two million according to the organizers, against this unpopular project according to the polls and whose flagship measure is a setback. retirement age from 62 to 64, in a country of some 67 million people.
The strikers of the TotalEnergies group renewed their movement on Wednesday morning against the government’s pension reform project in most of the group’s refineries, according to the CGT union.