Between 200 and 250 demonstrators marched through the streets of Laval, Thursday, September 29. A day of mobilization for wages, purchasing power and against pension reform, launched by the CGT, FSU and Solidaires unions. The other organizations remained in the background.
With inflation, the demonstrators demanded an increase in wages. The secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, highlighted “a first warning to the government and employers to quickly engage in wage negotiations”. “The emergency on wages, it becomes vital for a lot of people”pleaded Murielle Guilbert (Solidaires).
In the Mayenne procession, this La Poste employee told France Bleu Mayenne major financial difficulties some of his colleagues: “Some people are already choosing between heating their homes and eating. There are colleagues who only eat once a day. The salaries are too low. we will end up with an insufficient salary to pay for food, heating. I would like Emmanuel Macron to have a little more consideration for employees, for the most precarious. He has accentuated the gap between those who have little and those who have a lot”.