Pension reform continuation strike giant barbecue in front of the Nice court

"Even if it means being on the grill, we might as well put our merguez" slogan of the protest in Nice against the pension reform at the call of the bar association.

This Monday, January 13, 2020, between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., the bar association organized a giant barbecue in front of the Nice court. The continuation of the strike until January 20 was then approved. "All hearings, urgent or not, involving the freedom of the litigants included" confirms Me.Adrien Verrier, to the order of lawyers in Nice.

Pension reform continuation strike giant barbecue

Merguez, sausages, mayonnaise to protest against the pension reform and for the maintenance of their autonomous regime.

"The idea with the barbecue was to create visibility, everyone was invited to eat with us" explains, Me.Adrien Verrier, of the Bar Association in Nice. Consultations for were justiciable were free during this time. "Even if we put on the grill, as much as we put our merguez" they had posted as slogan, "the meeting with Nicole Belloubet, Minister of Justice" having given nothing ".

Another action was organized in Grasse on Monday by lawyers

Pension reform: strike continues despite removal of pivotal age announced by Prime Minister

The CFDT and the UNSA have been ready for dialogue with the government since the announced retirement of the pivotal age. Will this turning point begin to strike the strikers? General assemblies in the various sectors will decide the rest of the movement. In the meantime, the strike continues.

Will the positive response of the CFDT and the UNSA to the government's offer of dialogue undermine the determination of the strikers? The answer will be played from this Monday in the general assemblies of peak sectors for 40 days, starting with transport.

Strike in transport

The SNCF announces 8 TGV out of 10 in France, 7 TER out of 10 and 7 Transilien out of 10. International traffic will be "little disturbed". The attitude of the UNSA and the CFDT, strikers despite the support of their union centers for the points reform, will be scrutinized at the general meetings on Monday.

Sunday, the secretary general of the UNSA railway Didier Mathis assured that the call to strike was maintained at the SNCF but he recognized that the withdrawal of the pivotal age by the government "may (may) allow exit from above. "
    
The rate of strikers measured on Friday morning at the SNCF remained above 10% (10.2%), with almost one in two drivers (47.3%) concerned.
Blockage on the port of Marseille

On the Grand Maritime Port of Marseille, the CGT of the port and the dockers calls to continue the movement and to block the headquarters of the management, this Monday.

The CGT, majority in most refineries, called for continuing to stop fuel shipments until January 16 inclusive, "at least", according to the general secretary of CGT Chemistry, Emmanuel Lépine.

The previous interprofessional days and the total halt in shipments from January 7 to 10 have not yet resulted in a massive shortage of fuel, and the energy unions have vivid memories of the strike against the Labor Law in 2016, where they found themselves isolated.

They are therefore cautious about the possibility of a total shutdown of refineries, a cumbersome decision that takes several days.
Partial shutdown at the Lavéra refinery
Only the Petroinéos refinery in Lavéra (Bouches-du-Rhône) has started a partial halt in production at this stage. Four out of ten units are stationary.

This Monday also opens at the Ministry of Education negotiations on pensions, which must lead to a law programming revaluations. The FSU, the first teachers' union, will make its position known at 7:00 p.m.

Strike in National Education on January 14,15,16

At this stage, the national education unions called a strike and the demonstrations on January 14, 15 and 16 within the framework of the national inter-professional appeal CGT-CGC-FO-FSU-Solidaires.

SUD also calls for amplifying "a renewable strike movement capable of bending the government and obtaining the withdrawal of the government project".

The teachers denounce the fact that the reform will take into account the whole of the career in the calculation of pensions against the last six months currently, while the government promises them to revalorize the wages.

Highly mobilized lawyers
The National Bar Council (CNB), which represents 70,000 French lawyers, calls on "all lawyers in France to continue the strike movement for the week of January 13", in a statement Friday, continuing to denounce the removal of their autonomous pension plan.

Lawyers, very mobilized since the beginning of the movement, fear the doubling of their retirement contributions (from 14 to 28%) and the reduction of pensions.

The Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, and the State secretary in charge of pensions, Laurent Pietraszewski, are due to meet with representatives of the profession on Monday.