STRIKE OF JUNE 6 MOBILIZATION AT THE LOWEST

The examination, Thursday, June 8, 2023, of the Liot bill aimed at canceling the decline in the legal age of departure to 64 years was not enough to mobilize: in most cities, the processions had never been so little provided since the beginning of the social movement in January.

In Paris, there are – according to the CGT – 300,000 demonstrators who demanded the abandonment of the reform, the first implementing decrees of which have already been promulgated, 31,000 according to the police headquarters. A low also reached on February 11 and March 11, according to the central.

During the previous day of mobilization on May 1, the latter had counted 550,000 opponents in the streets of the capital, against 112,000 for the police headquarters – figures very far from the Parisian record of March 23 (800,000 for the CGT , 119,000 for the police).

Weakest ever recorded

This decline is also observed on a national scale, with “more than 900,000” demonstrators throughout France according to the CGT and only 281,000 according to the Ministry of the Interior. Figures very far from those given during the mobilization peak of March 7 (between 1.3 and 3.5 million according to Place Beauvau or the unions),

"The match is ending, whether we like it or not, with this unknown of what will happen Thursday at the Assembly," admitted Laurent Berger on Tuesday.

The number one of the CFDT called on the unions to "weigh in the balance of power to come" on other subjects such as wages or working conditions.