the anger of the opponents does not weaken

On their sixth day of strike, the garbage collectors of Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) were eagerly awaiting Emmanuel Macron’s speech. But they don’t get much out of it. “We expected a speech, we listened to it, it gives us nothing more except that we are always there, that we are always against and that he is always for”laments a striker. In Béziers, some still had the slim hope of obtaining concessions but very quickly, the trade unionists ended up coming to terms with the facts: the president will not bend in the face of the challenge.

New demonstrations on Thursday

The intervention of head of theState was also followed in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) where railway workers look bad, as if their mobilization had gone unnoticed. “He clearly shows that he’s moving on and that for him it’s settled, there’s no more debate. He’s just trying to say ‘stop striking, it’s no use anymore'”, criticizes an opponent of the pension reform. Thursday March 23, new demonstrations are expected throughout the territory.