NUPS goes into “campaign” against pension reform

Meetings will take place “everywhere in France” from January 17, announce the four parties of the left coalition, for which there is no economic necessity to reform pension plans.

MO12345LEMONDE with AFP

The four components of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) will launch a joint campaign against the “unfair and ineffective” project on January 17 of the government’s pension reform, which will include meetings and an offer of cooperation With employee union organizations for common initiatives.

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Gatherings will take place “everywhere in France, starting with a first meeting on Tuesday January 17 at 7 p.m. in Paris”, announce the four leftist training courses – La France Insoumise (LFI), Europe Ecologie -les Verts (EELV) , the Socialist Party (PS) and the French Communist Party (PCF) -, in a common press release .

judging that there is “no economic necessity” to reform current regimes, they also offer “a meeting at the inter -union (…) to consider possible common initiatives”. They call on their activists “to meet on the scale of the municipalities, departments and districts and to participate in local collectives which will be put in place with all the forces which wish”, by providing them with a common leaflet which analyzes the government’s bill. Representatives of the four parties gathered on Thursday to define the way of engaging the pension battle.

“no threat of deficit”

“Contrary to what the government is asserting, there is no threat of insurmountable deficit in our pension system,” insist the four training courses. “In contrast to any decline in our social rights, solidarity and the climate condition our social system and the habitability of the land in the medium term”, they say on the other hand.

A meeting organized by the Reporterre and Fakir media will take place Tuesday, January 10 in Paris, in the presence of the “rebellious” deputy François Ruffin (editor -in -chief of Fakir), of the new national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier, of the National Secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, of the president of the socialist group and related to the National Assembly, Boris Vallaud, and the president of the group of “rebellious” deputies, Mathilde Panot. “The left is united against the pension reform,” said the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure in the Sunday newspaper on Wednesday, assuring: “We can get the government back as it has already fell on insurance- unemployment. “

/Media reports cited above.