Faced with the call of the workers’ unions, thousands of people have travelled the streets of Baiona to express their rejection of Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. The workers' unions CGT, FO, FSU, CFE-CGC and Solidaires, the student structures UNEF and UNL and the union LAB with regard to Ipar Euskal Herria call for continued mobilization. In order to increase pressure, citizens are asked to go back to the streets on 11 January.

Once again, tens of thousands of workers have left the day of strike and have left the street. At the end of the demonstration, action has been taken against banks and insurance companies. Here is the video that Ekhi Erremunerdegi de Berria has disseminated on social networks:

https://twitter.com/EkhiErremundegi/status/1215237643484762114?s=20

https://twitter.com/EkhiErremundegi/status/1215237643484762114?s=20 As reflected in the diversity shown in the Baiona demonstration, public and private sector workers have responded positively to the call for strike. Nurses, lawyers, teachers and workers from various industrial companies have come to the concentration that has taken place in Baiona. Together with them, students have been mobilized, both treated and unemployed. With the same message often, at 15:00 hours, in Maule.

The longest strike in the last 30 years

Today's day is the 36th day of strike called by the strikers. In this way, the strike in the French State over the past 30 years has been the longest against reform. The current period has exceeded the duration of the mobilization which lasted from 18 December 1986 to 15 January 1987 (SNCF workers were also mobilized in favour of decent wages and working conditions).

Although the indefinite strike has been felt more intensely by the transport companies SNCF and RATP, there are also workers from other sectors on strike. However, the RATP strikers feel the need to expand the strike movement in the area. Since the strike, and therefore the list of days without income, is dragging on too long, RATP has called for a general strike for all citizens: “Only with SNCF colleagues will we not be able to bring the conflict forward. Our resources are limited and have an incalculable economic cost, it is being weighed. If you are not with us we will not win, you have to join us all, and not just for a day.” It is part of the call addressed to the media on 7 January. In addition to the workers of SNCF and RATP, among the sectors most mobilized today are the following: lawyers, nurses, oil wells, etc.

Your call may have a positive response. In fact, despite the fact that the government remains determined by disagreement, calls to strike are multiplying earlier this year. The SOS Nos Retraites group, composed of sixteen structures in the health, law, accounting and air transport sector, is mobilised. If nothing is achieved by the government, they have announced that they will go on indefinite strike as of 3 February. The chemical union CGT has called for "accelerating" the blockades in oil research centres between 7 and 10 January. Currently, of the 8 French refineries, there are blockages in 5.

The Government, Arid

The mobilization against reform began on 5 December and the French Government has since protested against it. Proof of this is President Emmanuel Macron’s response to year-end agencies: “The reform will be carried to the end.” Although he announced that the torpedoes of work will be taken into account in the new system, disagreement is not being appeased. Nor is there any openness in the negotiations that resumed this week. The bill will be submitted to the Council of Ministers of France on 24 January.