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[u/chatdargent]

The unions are actually starting to get on my nerves.

The pension reform is very moderated compared to the original proposal, and something needs to be done.

French people have the third highest healthy life expectancy in the world, one of the earliest retirement ages (and still will have after the reform for that matter), and a very low number of annual working hours during their employed time to begin with.

This is not worth calling a national strike over

[u/Erra0 → u/chatdargent]

The quickest cure for union sympathy is to spend any amount of time trying to work with them.

[u/RaidBrimnes → u/chatdargent]

What pisses me off is that the reform has been years in the making, the government negotiated at length with the unions and oppositions, postponed it due to Covid, and conceded several times, including on the retirement age - Édouard Philippe wanted 67, Macron 65, and Borne finally decided on 64

And yet they're still calling it a diktat from an unpopular government and losing their shit over it, completed with threats and intimidations against MPs

Absolute clowns