WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL: CA #328 - The fight for pensions: where are we? (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Already expected in December, it was finally, on Monday, January 23, that the

pension reform project was presented to the Council of Ministers. Unsurprisingly,
it is in line with past pension reforms of the Fifth Republic and in Macron's
ultra-liberal and anti-precarious social project (labour law, reform of
unemployment insurance, etc.). At each TV set, radio interview, paper
communication, the ministers (The Mayor, Borne etc) hammer it in a loop: above
all, we must not "increase the cost of labor". So, here again, we are going to
make savings on the backs of employees, disengage, back down on workers' rights
and then leave the door wide open for private pension funds.
Our system of distribution represents a significant part of the budget (14% of
GDP today), for our rulers only considering things in terms of accounts, it is
tempting to attack it. With each proposal for reform, struggles have begun,
victorious or not, we will come back to these struggles which have all shaken
public opinion.
In the current bill, the flagship measure will not concern the reduction in
pensions but the duration of contributions (deferral of 2 years) and the increase
in the legal age of departure at the full rate (from 62 to 64 years old).
According to the figures published by the DREES (1): 4 retirees out of 10 benefit
from a minimum pension, 3 out of 10 receive less than €1,000 gross per month as a
direct pension. We therefore understand the government's choice: inflation will
already take care of reducing the purchasing power of retirees!
We will thus take stock of the main lines of the current reform, and more
particularly by zooming in on its impact on women who, with the most precarious,
will be the most harmed. We will also present the time frame chosen by the
government to impose its reform, via 47-1, precariousness is always done faster!
If in the hemicycle, it is the rat race, we will rather be interested in the
union and popular reaction.
If the union of all the 8 trade union centers against the project was affirmed
from the start (even from the re-election of Macron), they take their time to
throw themselves into battle. The unions are permanently stuck on the ministerial
agenda awaiting the presentation of the law to call for the first day of action.
Then, while they succeeded in mobilizing in an extremely massive way (more than 2
million people in the streets on 01/19), they are now slow to call for a general
and renewable strike (timid calls for March 7) .
We will therefore try to finish this little file to present a feedback from this
first month of mobilization as well as our analyses, doubts and hopes for the
future. When the polls indicate that 7 out of 10 people do not want the reform,
that 6 out of 10 are in favor of blocking the country and the economy or that the
DREES indicates that "60% of non-retired people want to retire at 60 years or
before".... You have to know how to start a strike when social anger is there!

View the file online:

Social movements against pension reform projects (from 1995 to 2020)
Pension reform: "concrete progress" for women?
A brief overview of mobilization

(1) see 2022 overview of the Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Department.

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