Pension reform: over 500,000 signatures on union-launched petition

The movement is gaining momentum. A petition filed last week by eight major French unions against a pension reform deemed “unfair and cruel” passed the 500,000 signature mark on Wednesday.

On the eve of the first day of strikes and demonstrations against the transfer of legal age to 64, a text posted on change.org and distributed by CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, FSU and Solidaires garnered almost 517,000 signatures on Wednesday afternoon.

The inter-trade union condemns the project, which will “hit all workers in the forehead, especially those who started working early, the most unreliable.” He criticizes a government project that “has no economic necessity” but is “a choice of injustice and social regression”.

“This measure is not justified: the report of the Pension Orientation Council (COR) clearly states that nothing threatens the pension system. There is no emergency financial situation,” the trade unions continue to believe.

Another petition, launched by students and high schools, claiming “no for young people too” has garnered close to 35,000 signatures on change.org.