High prices, wages, working conditions… What are the protestors’ demands?

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. She is a regular at recent mobilizations.

Christelle, a private sector employee, demonstrates again and again against the high cost of living. "I don't earn thousands. You have to be careful at the end of the month, the races become more and more expensive," she confided, Thursday, November 5, in the streets of Paris.

Same daily dilemma for a mother with the RSA, who demonstrated in Lyon (Rhône). “I am accumulating pirouettes at the financial level. Here, it is the electricity which will soon be reduced.

These are meals that we skipped with the kids, I can't count them anymore," she explains. Many are asking for an increase in wages. "I'm lucky enough to receive some social benefits like the activity bonus.

If I didn't have that, it's certain and certain that I simply wouldn't be able to live," says a single father in Bordeaux (Gironde). "The job doesn't appeal anymore," laments a teacher. Everywhere in France, the voices of high school students are still being raised. They are determined to maintain pressure on the government.

Alongside them, teachers came to defend their own demands. “The profession no longer pleases, no longer convinces. I keep hearing that we have a lot of vacations, but I think that if the profession of teacher were really that good, we would not have a recruitment problem,” declares a teacher.

Many lawyers, too, denounce increasingly difficult conditions. “Overall, we are asking for more resources for the public service of justice. You should know that there are delays which are untenable for litigants.

You should know that in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), there is water in the courthouse. Overall, there is a drift towards an authoritarian state that we too are suffering," laments a lawyer. To try to respond to the anger of the street, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced a social conference with the unions and employers.

It will be held Monday November 9.

Machine-translated from French