“The nightly proclamation does not change our fight. We will not go any further until this law is abolished”, say CGT-Cheminots, Unsa-Ferroviaire, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots.
The railway unions have already held several strikes against raising the retirement age to 64 and are announcing “a day of anger” for April 20. It takes place on the eve of the start of the school holidays in the Paris region and the south.
The unions describe April 20 as “a preparatory stage” to May 1, Labor Day. “The social violence orchestrated by the government and the president of the rich obliges us to remain mobilized,” they said in the statement.
Despite months of protest, the legislation on raising the retirement age appeared in the French official journal on Saturday. President Emmanuel Macron signed the text on Friday evening after the Constitutional Council had given the green light earlier in the day.