Unions transform Labour Day marches into anti-government demonstrations against rise in retirement age
The timing of the next union-led protest was chosen to presage a debate on June 8th over a proposal introduced in the National Assembly by Liot, a small group of centrist parliamentarians, to cancel the increase in the retirement age. The unions said in a joint statement on Tuesday that the June 6th industrial action was meant to “allow all workers to make themselves heard by the MPs”.
The Liot initiative has little chance of becoming law because it would also need approval by the Senate. The upper house earlier backed increasing the retirement age and is controlled by the conservative Les Républicains. It could, however, allow the National Assembly to vote publicly for the first time on the central measures of Mr Macron’s pensions law, which also requires people to work for 43 years – up from about 40 years now – to receive a full pension. Although there were debates in parliament in February and March, MPs did not actually vote on the law itself because the government resorted to passing it using special powers granted to the executive under the 49.3 clause of the French constitution.
The government survived two no-confidence votes that were triggered by opposition parties after it used the 49.3 clause. – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2023 The May Day protests in France this year coincided with weeks of public outrage over pension reform. Photograph: Ameer Alhalbi/Getty
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