Today we demand for a fair pension reform
which takes into account all our pensions paid
and the toil of our jobs.
In our field there is a lot of hard work
especially in the steel industry and in the factories.
That's why it's difficult to work until 64 years old.
You must consider this hardship.
Of course we have to do something for pension reform
but postponing the retirement age is not the right decision.
And in the next few years, young people will enter the workforce later.
So they will have to retire later. We also have to take this into account
before we change everything.
The government does not listen to the unions.
But acts in force.
While there should be space for all
when it comes to making these decisions
not just the congressmen, senators and the government,
we should listen to all unions
Which is not the case.
It was not always easy with previous governments.
But then there was more dialog and listening
while today they do not listen to anyone and stick to their original ideas.
Let us hope that today we are numerous.
I demonstrate for myself, my children, all working people
and my grandchildren.
My pension will be fine, but the problem is for future generations.
My four children.
It breaks my heart that with each new reform, more years are added to retirement.
Because the president is still young
and has a good living, until his retirement
even until his death.
But the problem is us, our children.
There is no hope with this president
He gives power to the bosses while we are crushed.
It's too much, we can not take anymore.
I suffer during my work.
But there are no doctors or medical services.
Macron has given too much importance and power to the bosses.
But the workers are defeated...
It can only get worse.
There will be no agreement because this president only sees himself,
and the rich people.
But not the poor people who suffer,
who wake up at 4am or 3am in the morning to go to work
and who come home at midnight, 1am, 3am, 4am.
He does not see that.
So we are the victims.
And the bosses think they are heroes and can do what they want with their employees
and the employees are the ones who suffer.
We will not give up!
We have come to defend the counter-project to the pension reform
because we think it is unfair and we want to raise our voice.
The delay of the retirement period is unnecessary
so we want the government to change its project.
Because they say that this reform is to solve the economic problem of the pension,
but in reality it is about solving other economic problems.
And we do not want the workers to pay for these reforms of the government,
because we see clearly that they are trying to lead us to a funded pension system,
but we want to keep our pay-as-you-go system.
So we will fight this battle, because we do not want to become the USA.
We fight because we still believe in the future.
That's why we want this government, to no longer continue in its ways.
We want solidarity to be a higher value than profits and capital.
This is a desire that we all share, that is why we have gathered today.
We are all together and we want the government to listen to us
and that they stop their project that only the richest benefit from.
I am against this reform which is very unfair
You just have to look at the majority of citizens
more than 9 out of 10 current employees are against this project.
And more than 60% of the population
For five years now, this government proves that it does not listen to the citizens
on issues of climate change, society, etc,
and today there is a great citizen mobilization because of this reform.
Parliamentarians are also mobilizing massively,
against this very unfair reform.
But the government still does not listen to us,
so the only solution is to be in great numbers today,
and really some kind of convergence of struggles.
We really need to all be here, not only a part of the population,
but the young, the old, the hospital workers, the teachers, the LGBT people...
There really is an intersection that has to be dealt with to create a balance of power,
because there's no other way to get them to listen to us.
Today we are in solidarity with many different professions,
against this reform, which seems to us totally unjust and unfair.
As firefighters, we enjoy a special status
because of the dangerous nature of our work,
and we want to defend it.
But we are here in solidarity for all professions.
Society continues to evolve
and firefighters are faced with more and more dangers nowadays,
during our missions, which sometimes involve difficult relations with the citizens.
On the one hand, the state places medals on our coffin,
but on the other hand the state is incapable of recognizing the danger of our work.
This reform shows us once again the total disrespect for our professions.
A European professional firefighter today
has an average age of death of 66 years,
so the least would have been to recognize this fact with this reform.
But they haven't done so.
We have a government that only engages in dialog to get people to talk.
If it's just to get people to talk, it's pointless.
So today it's a government that makes people talk
while bragging about organizing reunions,
but if it's just about people expressing themselves without really listening to them.
That's not negotiation, that's not dialog.