«I demonstrate for her future as much as for me“: shortly before Saint-Ambroise, Sarah, in her thirties, demonstrates with her husband and their three-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter, who firmly holds a red balloon in her little hand”CGT». «I explained the problem to him… in simple words, and as a three-year-old child can understand.“, smiles the mother of the family.
This Val d’Oise medico-social employee is demonstrating against a reform that is not “neither social nor ecological». «I work with disabled children and the elderly. And I see them arriving, the bodies destroyed by work, by life. I don’t want this to happen to me“, she notes. So she refuses to think that the mobilization could fail to make the government back down.
«There are a lot of people, and there are people from all walks of life, students, college students, employees…says Sarah, looking around her. Compared to the last demonstrations, she estimates the attendance at the level, and says she is ready to go back down to the streets as much as necessary. “It’s tough financially, but it will be tough too when I have to work until I’m 64, with a low pension because I had to stop working for my child, for my second child.», philosophizes the young thirty-year-old, while her husband carries their young daughter, who is getting impatient and whose little legs are wobbling in the middle of the procession.