#retirement protest

[thoughtportal]

BlackRock offices in Paris

[icedjuiceboxes]

Post-DH2/DOTO Designs

Empress Emily Kaldwin / Royal Protector Billie Lurk

Yeah I decided post-DH2/DOTO Billie becomes Emily Royal Protector.

Doodles and some thoughts on Royal Protector!Billie here

I actively choose to ignore the books they don't exist <3

[queerism1969]

[tenaciousgay]

The protests going on in France right now are based. The government there want to raise the retirement age "because we cannot afford pensions", with similar thoughts going on in right wing governments in other EU countries too.

The right want us to work until we die. They will take our retirement from us, justifying it by saying the country cannot afford it, while continuing to subsidize the 1% with tax breaks and subsidies. Fuck them.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

In France, over 1 million people marched on the streets of cities including Paris, Marseille and Nice on Thursday, as labor unions held a nationwide strike against plans by President Emmanuel Macron to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. In Paris, more than three dozen people were arrested after police used tear gas to clear protesters from Bastille Square. This is trade union leader Laurent Escure.

Laurent Escure: “We want to have a good retirement. We don’t want to retire broke, tired, broken. We want to enjoy our last years with our children, our grandchildren, maybe with our parents, who have to be taken care of. So it is a message of social justice that we want today. If the government does not come to its senses, there will be more strikes to follow. That is why we appeal to reason and not to make the choice of irresponsibility, and to choose the voice of reason.”

[pointless-letters]

Kev is so close to an actual breakthrough here. So close.

[burritosandpeppermint]

From a protest against raising the retirement age in Bordeaux, France. X

[katurdayss]

I love how people in France are up in arms about the retirement age being raised from 62 to 64, meanwhile in the U.S. politicians are talking about raising the retirement age to 70, with millennials currently being able to retire at 67 (65 for baby boomers) and it's barely talked about.

I'm not being sarcastic, I really love the protests. Someone somewhere should have a good quality of work/ life balance. I don't know of one millennial in the US that actually expects there to be a) social security and b) us to have saved enough money via IRA's and 401K's TO retire.

[mariautistic]

Saw the dumbest fucking post the other day that said something to the effect it's actually good the UK and the US aren't protesting for better working rights because any progress they get affects the third world so actually it's more progressive to not get any progress on that at all unlike ze french who are so selfish that they protest for better work conditions and that it's pointless anyways bc advances are too small . What fucking self respected commie is like actually not getting any rights for workers is good 👍 can't you just admit that the working movement isn't as organized/willing to defy the status quo enough and you're jealous instead of trying to turn it around

[emperornorton47]

Welcome to France

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Spontaneous protests broke out in France on April 14 after the country’s Constitutional Council ratified the increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64, the most controversial aspect of the pension reforms pushed by the Emmanuel Macron-led government. Macron signed the bill into law early on Saturday. The coordination of the trade unions, which includes the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), called for protests to continue until the ‘reforms’ are rolled back A fresh round of protests is scheduled for May 1.

[memenewsdotcom]

France pension reforms survive non-confidence

[amandabe11man]

france protesting violently bc they raised the retirement age from 62 to 64. meanwhile sweden’s is 65 most of the time and they’re talking about raising it to 67...

[eaglesnick]

Great Britain?

In October 2019 it was reported that,

“Boris Johnson looks to an election with promise to make UK ‘greatest place on earth’ (POLITICO: 14/10/19)

Implicit in this statement is the assumption that Britain is no longer the best place on earth to live and raise a family. A belief that other countries are now better than we are, that Britain is no longer the country it once was. In short, the belief that Britain is in decline, that we have somehow become a second rate nation. 

We all know about the corruption at the heart of government, from tax avoiding Chancellors of the Exchequer, to scandals over Partygate, ministerial bullying, cronyism, and much else beside. Sadly, none of this comes as a surprise, so low is our opinion of politicians (of all parties) and the political process. But although our phlegmatic national character has much to commend it, surely now is time we stirred ourselves into action, cast aside lethargy and began to demand better from those who purport to rule in our name.

We could do worse than look to the French who, objecting to the undemocratic imposition of the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64, took to the streets in their tens of thousands, and whose political opposition party stood up in the French parliament holding up placards and singing La Marseillaise.

Be it rumours of the UK state pension age being raised to 68, to millions of tonnes of raw sewage being pumped into our waterways we sit idly by and do nothing. From the gradual collapse of the NHS to the quiet but persistent run down of our public sector services we remain silent, and, by default, compliant.

Mr Johnson was perfectly right to draw our attention to the decline of Britain, a decline brought about by successive Conservative governments including his own.

[lejournaldupeintre]

France : Macron uses special powers to force through plan to raise pension age

Chaotic scenes in parliament and Paris streets as thousands gather in spontaneous protest The French government has used controversial special constitutional powers to force through a rise in the pension age amid chaotic scenes in parliament in which radical left MPs sang La Marseillaise at the top of their voices to stop the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, from speaking. The president,…