LIVE Follow with us this day of mobilization against pension reform
The TotalEnergies logo on the site of the Total Energy refinery at Gonfreville-l'Orcher, near Le Havre, in northwestern France. — Lou BENOIST/AFP Refresh Show highlights only
THE ESSENTIAL
- The unions are kicking off a mobilization this Thursday that they hope will be quite “powerful” to make the government bend on its flagship pension reform, in particular on the decline in the legal retirement age from 62 to 62 years old. 64 years old. More than 200 assembly points are planned in France, the authorities expecting 550,000 to arrive. 750,000 demonstrators, including 50 at the 80,000 to Paris.
- Closed schools, dribbling trains: several public services will be disrupted, including so much so that Transport Minister Clément Beaune called the French to shift their travels or telecommute if they can. The movement promises to be very popular in schools, with 70% of teachers on strike in the first degree. In secondary school, many teachers will be absent, and blockades of high schools are expected.
- More than 10,000 police and gendarmes will be on duty. foot of work, including 3,500 to Paris, where Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said he feared the influx of “a few thousand people” likely to fight it out.
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10:40 a.m.: Alternatives to public transport are exploding
Rental of electric scooters, car sharing and car pooling… the strike which notably massively affects public transport in the country. Cityscoot, which rents electric scooters, notes a +26% increase in rentals in Paris and Nice. 65% of additional requests and specifies having noted; an increase in power since the start of the week: +39% on Monday, +48% on Tuesday, +58% on Wednesday. Same phenomenon for the car-sharing platform Getaround, which noted a 15% increase in reservations in the Paris region.
10:35 am: Live from the Toulouse procession
En tête de cortège, à #Toulouse, les syndicats unis pour dénoncer la réforme des #retraites pic.twitter.com/gYuCFWsYmy
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10:17 a.m.: The police headquarters “strongly”recommends” motorists to avoid the area
Traffic will be “very severely disrupted” in the 11th and 12th arrondissements of Paris, where The demonstration against the pension reform is due to take place this Thursday. “It is highly recommended motorists to largely circumvent the sector throughout the duration of the event,” notes the police headquarters in a press release; this Thursday morning.
However, law enforcement said a “traffic device” is set up “between boulevard Voltaire to the north and boulevards du Temple, des Filles du Calvaire, Beaumarchais, place de la Bastille, rue de Lyon, avenue Daumesnil, boulevard Diderot to the south, as well as around the squares of the Republic and the Nation, to overcome the difficulties encountered, as and when measuring the progression of the cortege”.
10:04 a.m .: “ We are off to a tough conflict”, says the head of FO
“We are in for a tough fight. We must remove the totem of the starting age and the extension of the contribution period,” on his side on Sud Radio the general secretary of FO, Frédéric Souillot. The objective “is’is to roll back the government. We’t there; to be counted,” he said, recalling that this reform is “against the totality of trade unions” but also “against a majority ”.
🗣️@SouillotFo @force_ouvriere : "L'objectif est faire reculer le gouvernement. On n’est pas là pour se compter. Mais on a interrogé nos 104 unions départementales : la mobilisation va être très forte" #Greve19janvier #ReformeDesRetraites
📺https://t.co/xW75863fpM pic.twitter.com/Fb6kwUVbMr
— Sud Radio (@SudRadio) January 19, 2023
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9:51 a.m.: Laurent Berger is “not very worried” on the level of mobilization
CFDT boss Laurent Berger said he was “not very worried” on the level of mobilization, on BFMTV. “A lot of people tell us we are going to come to demonstrate, people who say we don’t usually come but sometimes. we have had enough”, continued the N.1 of the CFDT. “It’s the first day of mobilization, we have to make a show of force, in the peaceful sense of the term,” he added.
9:40 a.m.: The facades of protected stores
Workers go up to the windows of a store located on the course of a demonstration, àgrave; on the eve of nationwide strikes and protests against a pension reform plan, Paris, January 18, 2023. – Alain JOCARD/AFP
A pedestrian stands in front of a bank branch with boarded up windows located on the route of the demonstration, Wednesday January 18. – Alain JOCARD/AFP
Workers protect the front of an insurance company, located on the route of the demonstration against the pension reform, Wednesday January 18. – Alain JOCARD/AFP
9:27 a.m.: The Twitch picket line
A collective of streamers and streamers has launched; a Twitch channel in support of; the fight against pension reform. PiquetDeStream wants to encourage as many people as possible to; participate in; the strike but also raise funds to support the strikers. We tell you about it here:
9:14 a.m.: A special playlist to accompany the demonstrators concocted by Radio Nova
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On a aussi concocté une playlist pour soutenir les grévistes, les manifestants, celles et ceux qui défileront dans la rue.
NTM, Dombrance, Les Vulves Assassines, La Femme, SCH ou Les Vilars pour accompagner votre jeudi gréviste ? Bonne écoute, bonne luttehttps://t.co/1vkPbKMLW0
— Radio Nova (@laRadioNova) January 19, 2023
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9:01 a.m.: Useful reminders before going to demonstrate
En amont de la #greve19janvier, quelques rappels sur le droit de manifester :
➡️Manifester est un droit fondamental garanti par l’article 20 de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme.
Les États doivent le faciliter et le protéger.
— Amnesty International France (@amnestyfrance) January 18, 2023
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8:48 a.m.: Between 70 and 100% of strikers in most TotalEnergies refineries, according to the CGT< /strong>
The strike movement against the pension reform was followed by 70 to 60 years. 100% strikers in most refineries of the TotalEnergies group, indicated Thursday the CGT of the group. “Everywhere the expeditions were smooth. suspended,” Eric Sellini, national union coordinator for TotalEnergies.
According to a first point from the CGT, there were 100% strikers in the morning shifts for the La Mède biorefinery, the Flandres fuel depot, near Dunkirk , and the Carling petrochemical plant (Moselle). The Donges refinery (Loire-Atlantique) had 95% of strikers and that of Normandy 80%, while the teams at the Feyzin refinery (Rhône) were on strike. more than 70%.
08:36: Mason, plumber, cashier… They tell the reality. hardship at work
The pension reform project plans to introduce a medical examination for so-called « painful ». What do the main stakeholders think? The answer in our article:
08:25 am: Blocking of a Parisian high school by the students ;ve this morning
Le Média, an information site launched by relatives of insubordinate France, published a video of the blockage:
Le lycée Hélène Boucher, à #Paris dans le XXe, est bloqué depuis ce matin. Plusieurs blocus dans la capitale.
La police est présente. Quelques élus, dont @SimonnetDeputee, sont venu en soutien. #greve19janvier #GreveGenerale19Janvier pic.twitter.com/UZv2Y1NK65
— Le Média (@LeMediaTV) January 19, 2023
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8:16 a.m.: Details of disruptions in the Paris metro
RATP metro and RER traffic in the Paris region is “very disrupted” Thursday, with one metro line completely closed and twelve others only operating, sometimes partially, during rush hour.
In detail, line 8 is completely closed, indicated to AFP RATP. Lines 10 (full length) and 11 (only on one section) operate during morning rush hours, when they were initially to be closed.
Lines 2, 3, 5, 6 and 13 are only open during peak hours – from 07:30 a.m. to 07:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. – on certain sections, with frequencies varying from 1 train out of 2 to 1 out of 5 trains.
Lines 3bis, 7, 7bis, 9 and 12 also operate at peak times, over their entire length, with variable frequencies.
Line 4, partially automated, runs all day until 10:15 p.m., with 1 train out of 2 at peak times and 1 train out of 4 at off-peak hours.
Lines 1 and 14, automated, are operating normally, the RATP warning of a risk of saturation .
On all these lines, a number of stations remain closed, such as Alésia, Bastille, Gare de l’Est, Montparnasse-Bienvenüe, Pigalle, Place d’Italie or Ré ;public.
08:11: Why the departure from Is 64 the point of tension for the oppositions?
Despite efforts of “pedagogy” of the majority to defend his “project of justice”, a measure crystallizes the anger of the opponents: retirement from 62 to; 64 years old. All the explanations in our article:
08:02: Declines in electricity production by strikers intensify
Declines in electricity production Organized by EDF agents to challenge the government plan on pensions intensified sharply on Thursday, reaching at least the equivalent of twice the consumption of Paris, we learned from the CGT and the line manager high and very high voltage RTE.
“This is the beginning of the fight until the withdrawal!!”, writes the CGT federation Mines Energie in a leaflet on social networks, announcing “more than 7,000 MW of reduction in production without any impact on users”.
< /p> 08:01: Very disrupted traffic to planned in the Paris metro
[#MouvementSocial] À la suite d’un préavis appelant à une journée de grève interprofessionnelle le jeudi 19 janvier, la #RATP prévoit un trafic très perturbé sur les réseaux RER et Métro et perturbé sur le réseau de surface (Bus et Tramway) ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/bNiEQI0Sk6
— RATP Group (@RATPgroup) January 18, 2023
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07:47: Everything you need to know about the pension reform explained in video
07:38: A petition gathered more than 500,000 signatures against the reform
The petition launched last week by the eight main French unions against a reform pensions judged « unfair and brutal » crossed the 500,000 signature mark on Wednesday.
Find out more here:
07:14: Which sectors are on strike today?
The answer with this article which returns to the sectors which disengage against the pension reform:
< strong>06h55: Elisabeth Borne tries the educational card
To defend her pension reform before the mobilization on Thursday, Elisabeth Borne made a surprise intervention yesterday in a public meeting in Val-de-Marne. The Prime Minister was indeed not announced in front of the few hundred people invited by the deputy. Renaissance Mathieu Lefevre in a room of the Watteau theater in Nogent-sur-Marne.
“ the light one. I am perfectly aware that this is a very delicate, very sensitive subject, which inevitably raises many questions. all French people,” she began.
“Wasn't there other ways to make “this less brutal for us?” an employee, forced to work “one more year” with the reform project. In response, the Prime Minister said she was “determined” to “Changing the way companies look at seniors.
06:35: The Paris metro almost at l’arrêt
[#MouvementSocial] À la suite d’un préavis appelant à une journée de grève interprofessionnelle le jeudi 19 janvier, la #RATP prévoit un trafic très perturbé sur les réseaux RER et Métro et perturbé sur le réseau de surface (Bus et Tramway) ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/bNiEQI0Sk6
— RATP Group (@RATPgroup) January 18, 2023
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06:30: At Orly, 20 % of flights should be cancelled
06:20: Train traffic “very badly disturbed”
While the mobilization promises to be strong, the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune called the French to shift their travels or telecommute if they can. The SNCF is indeed planning for “very highly disrupted” with one in three TGVs, or even one in five depending on the line, and at barely one TER out of ten on average. The Paris metro will be reduced to the essentials.
06:10 am: Welcome to this Live
Hello to; all and to all. On this day of mobilization against the pension reform, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes accompanies you with this Live to give you all the information on this social movement which promises to be very serious. s followed. The unions are indeed united to oppose the government, in particular on the postponement of the legal age to 64 years old. This first day will above all be a test for the executive as well as for the unions, who will meet in the evening to decide on a new date, February 26. so much on the table.