FO 35’s Fabrice Lerestif tells parliamentarians: “We won’t forget a thing” about reindeer – HIT WEST.

Following the 8th day of national mobilization against the pension reform, which brought together some 17,000 people in Nantes this Wednesday (March 15), 10,000 in Rennes and Brest, 7,000 in Saint-Nazaire, 6,000 in Lorient and Angers , eyes are now on the parliamentarians, called to vote on the text, since the joint committee has agreed on a compromise text. At the time of the vote, all the union leaders have planned to gather tomorrow Thursday, March 16, in front of the National Assembly.

“We won’t forget anything“

Fabrice Lerestif, general secretary Force Ouvrière in Ille-et-Vilaine, is counting on parliamentarians to measure the stakes of their vote, and not to betray the French: “il they must not imagine that in two or three months, we will have forgotten: neither us nor the workers to whom they will have inflicted two more years before going to retirement, that is to say perhaps two years less on their life expectancy. They have to take their responsibilities, we have a long memory. They are supposed to represent the population: they are going to pass a law against the population, against the workers! Let them assume it! But it will not be necessary after that they come to cry if they are actually going to be shouted at in the street by workers, employees, or retirees who will ask them questions that will bother them! Nothing will be forgotten, and we will publish everyone’s positions and votes because that seems to me to be democratic transparency.”

“You mustn’t let go!”

Even if the text is voted on, the unions want to continue the movement. After all, for Fabrice Lerestif, there are precedents, not so distant: “in 2006, the first employment contract was adopted and we managed to obtain its repeal after three weeks of mobilization. You must not give up. The government is not that strong… In 95, Alain Juppé said “I am inflexible, I will never move! And at the end of the end they moved. I don’t believe in losing battles, and I don’t think it will be over in a fortnight, three weeks, a month… because there, something happened and there is a deep anger that maybe will arise in another way.. I think we can still win!”

The protesters are ready to continue

The Rennes parade brought together between 10,000 and 15,000 people. On the sidelines of the procession, damage was committed: trash cans burned, windows broken. 18 people were arrested by the police. In this procession, some like Sébastien were on their eighth day of mobilization. And despite the impact on the salary, this professional firefighter says he is ready to continue, until the withdrawal of the reform : “if we have to go to ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen, one month, two months, we will go all the way. We have already taken two years in the face with (François) Hollande! At some point, they’ll stop wringing us… We’ll raise our heads and we’ll fight. Me, I have two big children and it is for them that we fight too. We’re already going to leave them a rotten planet if we don’t move our butts, so Stop!”

49.3 is a denial of democracy!

Katia has also been mobilizing since the beginning of the movement: employed at Social Security, she wants to believe in the rejection of the reform by parliamentarians: “a bill will then be submitted to the Senate and the Assembly… and it is the Assembly that will have the last word. Passing this type of bill by a 49.3 is really a denial of democracy. I think that most citizens will remember in the next votes, who went against the voice of the people and who did not … and Mr Macron will have to bear the sole responsibility for the rise of extremes in our country.”