They are blocking access to the Louvre museum as a sign of protest against the pension reform

Dozens of workers and trade unionists blocked the entrances to the street the Louvre museum in protest against the pension reform, on the eve of another national day of strikes and protests, he also prevented the opening of the monument.

The pickets, an initiative of a cross-union of museum staff, began forming at 9:00 a.m. local time (8:00 GMT), the museum’s opening time, and will continue throughout the day, according to protesters.

«All entrances to the Louvre have been cut offso I’m sorry, but no visitors will be able to enter the museum today,” announces Efeu Mehena Belaid, the museum’s night employee, from the pyramid, “exhausting and intense work,” he describes.

A day before union headquarters launched a new day of protests for pension reform, President Emmanuel Macron and his government launched offensively convince unions to sit down to negotiate a range of “essential issues” such as purchasing power or public services, but excluding pensions.

“The law on pensions is behind us,” said a government spokesman on MondayOlivier Veranin an interview for the BFMTV channel, in which he recalled that he was once adopted, Constitutional Council must decide on its validity within the next four weeks.

Véran, not acknowledging that the unions would postpone the current minimum retirement age with this law 62 years to 64 is the “red line”he tried to emphasize that “this should not prevent us from talking about everything that is important to the French”.

That is why he was convinced that “in a few days or at most in a few weeks we will meet at the table” and discuss other topics such as salaries or retraining.

This belief conflicts with the plans of the union headquarters, which are convening this Tuesday on what will happen to them tenth day of mobilization against the pension reform, the second since the law was passed by decree, with the constitutional mechanism, Article 49.3, which prevented the executive power from submitting it to the House of Representatives for a vote, where it did not have a sufficient majority.

It also clashes with weeks-long strikes in public transport, refineries, power generation or garbage collection, and the risk of further unrest tomorrow outside demonstrations by extremist groups.

However, the government’s message is clear, and this morning it was repeated by the Minister of Public Administration, Stanislas Guérini, who in another interview with the CNews channel pointed out that now with the pension law “There is a continuation of the democratic process”with deliberation at the Constitutional Council.

“At the same time,” Guérini said, “we must meet again” with the unions and “discuss fundamental issues” such as “purchasing power” or “public services.”

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, who meets with the president on Mondays, as usual, declared that, apart from the budget texts, he would not reach for 49.3 again, which was the trigger that caused the protests against pensions, until then massive but mostly peaceful, to degenerate into violence outside the union.

Macron also asked Borneo to seek a majority, either with the right as before or with the left, for the next texts to be presented to parliament.