Air transport workers ready to toughen up the movement
In the early afternoon, Place d’Italie and Boulevard Vincent Auriol in Paris, air transport employees, Groupe ADP, Air France, or even Airbus, provided large battalions of participants in the parade.
Backed by the Groupe ADP CGT van, suffused with smoke from the merguez sausages, Sandrine has a smile on her face. “We are even more numerous than the last time, on January 19”, enthuses the employee of the fire safety service of Aéroport de Paris in Roissy. She said to herself “ready to come back to demonstrate if necessary. I am very determined”. A 50 ans, “without a long career”she does not imagine “absolutely not working until age 64 with the reform “. According to him, it will not be possible for him to “working shift hours, at night, at 64”.
A few meters away, Daniel Bertone, secretary general of the CGT at ADP, did his accounts: “We came six buses from ADP Orly and Roissy “. The trade unionist believes that “the head of state is playing with fire with this pension reform”. He remembers that the night of his election “Emmanuel Macron said that people had not voted for his program but to block the National Rally”. Aged 53, he beats the pavement “to defend the principle of the right to retirement”. He is convinced that the reform will not pass, but for that “We have to maintain the inter-union. This is the key to success! ».
In the middle of the avenue des Gobelins, just back from Osaka (Japan), Christelle Auster, president of the National Union of Aircrew (SNPNC) FO preferred to skip a flight to parade in Paris. At Air France, “we are not on strike but we have chosen mobilization”explains the air hostess between two shouted slogans on a rock tune played on the electric guitar by a demonstrator (a bit of a musician.
With pilots, professional flight personnel (PNC) “Discussing with the Minister of Transport, Clément Baune, to have the guarantee of the maintenance of our pension fund”, she says. A flag in hand, the trade unionist wants to recognize “the specificities of the profession: jet lag, ionizing rays, impact on the circadian rhythm”. So far the minister has refused. But she does not give up. “If necessary, we will harden the movement”, she announces. With a smile, she points out that a petition launched with all the Cabin Crew Members has already collected more than “5000 signatures in five days”.
