The coordination of yellow vests, youth organizations, certain unions and other organizations such as the children's collective and those mobilized against the "license to kill" of the police are calling for demonstrations on Saturday, which should converge in certain cities, notably Paris, in common processions.
The children's collective had already planned to demonstrate on Saturday "against violence against children and adolescents" and various human rights organizations to march against the proposed law on the presumption of legitimate use of weapons by the police, which amounts, according to them, to "a license to kill".
The movement which organized climate marches on September 26 had also marked this date for new demonstrations “for the present and the future of children”. The coordination of the yellow vests, which has contributed since October 17 to the organization of demonstrations on Saturdays throughout France to denounce the “high cost of living”, calls for its “Act V” to support and participate in all the mobilizations carried out this Saturday, November 14. Call joined by youth organizations still mobilized for better study conditions. The collaborative map of the coordination of yellow vests lists 164 demonstrations throughout France on Thursday morning for Saturday.
A “systematic judicialization” of criminal acts targeting National Education personnel as well as “disciplinary proceedings against troublemakers”. The government made the announcement on Thursday, November 12, at the end of a week marked by the attack on a Modem elected official in front of a high school in Chelles, the head injury of a principal in Bègles (Gironde), the outbreak of fires and the shooting of mortars inside establishments.
Does this mean that justice has not yet taken up the offenses that have marked the high school movement for a month and a half now? As of October 2, the Minister of Justice had nevertheless drafted a circular on strengthening the judicial response to offenses committed in the context of high school blockades.
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Some 70,000 police officers and gendarmes should be mobilized on Saturday for Act V “against the high cost of living” launched by the coordination of yellow vests and youth organizations, the Minister of the Interior announced on Friday, who plans “between 50 and 60 parades” in the territory.
“We will have the same system as last Saturday” and since October 24, indicated Laurent Nuñez on LCI, specifying nevertheless that this figure would be refined during a meeting on Friday.
“It is a system that is mobile, reactive, which adapts to what at-risk groups do, who break up into small groups and who try to circumvent the police system,” he explained.
With the increase in the minimum wage scheduled for December 1, 164 professional branches could find themselves with minimum wages below the minimum wage, estimated Wednesday the CGT, which is calling for several measures to counter the decline in salary scales. “As of December 1, 164 branches covering more than 14 million employees (out of 22 million) will have a minimum lower than the minimum wage. On October 28, the CGT revealed that 122 branches covering more than 9 million private sector employees were affected. With the 1.6% increase in the minimum wage on December 1, 2026, 42 additional branches will be illegal! A record!”, writes the second union confederation of employees in a press release.
Metallurgy, technical design offices, hotels-cafes-restaurants, cleaning companies, automobile services, establishments for disabled people, wholesale trade, road transport of goods and even fast food are among the ten non-compliant branches with the most employees, according to the CGT. Its estimates are based on tables from the Branch Monitoring Committee transmitted by the General Directorate of Labor, updated with extended branch agreements.
In France, there are some 170 professional branches which each bring together at least 5,000 employees. Their collective agreements generally provide for a conventional minimum wage, but these minimums are sometimes lower than the minimum wage.
Sébastien Lecornu affirmed Thursday that the agricultural question would be one of the “major” compromise levers on the draft budget for 2027, currently being examined in the Senate, as was the suspension of the pension reform on the 2026 budget.
“It is obvious that where other themes last year”, such as the suspension of the pension reform, “had served as a political discussion on a budgetary compromise (with the socialists, Editor's note), it is obvious that the agricultural question will be one of the major themes of the budgetary compromise for the weeks and months to come”, affirmed the Prime Minister during a press point on the sidelines of the closing of the Food Sovereignty Conferences.
“Some would say ‘the government is politicizing the agricultural issue’. Well no, it's the real world. It is the drought and all the reasons that led us to have to build (the) agricultural recovery plan, he argued.
“No one can explain straight to the French people, with the interest rates that are ours, but also to the agricultural world, that all this can wait a year, that is to say a complete (agricultural) season,” he added.
The Alliance police union on Tuesday launched an ultimatum to Minister of the Interior Laurent Nunez, demanding that he “officially” announce, “before the end of the week”, a 35% increase in the risk premium for police officers, failing which it will initiate “an unprecedented national mobilization”. The 35% increase in this ISSP bonus, called the “special police hardship bonus”, has been demanded by all the police unions for several months.
Created in 1958, it is the result of the merger of risk and danger premiums. It is included in the calculation of the retirement pension of police officers. In its press release, Alliance highlights the current violent demonstrations facing the police. “For weeks, our colleagues have endured violence of incredible brutality. Hit. Burned. Beaten up. Hospitalized. (...) The government is counting the injured, but still refuses to recognize the risk!” writes the union.
The organization draws a parallel between the increase in the minimum wage announced by the Prime Minister on Monday and the fact that the police obtained nothing. “For the police officers who get smashed in the field? Nothing!” she protests.
After the strike of September 29, then that of November 5, all the union organizations except the CFDT called a strike on November 17, including the two main ones in the Civil Service, the CGT and Force Ouvrière. After the first unsuccessful meetings in Bercy this week, where the government did not satisfy the majority of unions interviewed by AFP, the meeting in Matignon takes on the appearance of a last chance.
The executive could propose raising the basic salaries of agents who have the lowest levels of remuneration, and receive compensation to reach the minimum minimum wage threshold. This would allow a certain number of them to be removed from this system, without them receiving more than the minimum wage.
This path had already been outlined by David Amiel at the beginning of October. It would then have allowed some 400,000 beneficiaries of this compensation to exit, a figure which is no longer relevant since the new boost to the minimum wage on Monday.
The public service unions were received by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday and are awaiting announcements on salaries, a few days after a boost to the minimum wage which does not concern them and before a strike announced to the public on November 17. Having remained a dead letter for a long time, the request from the union representatives of the 5.8 million public employees to meet the head of government was finally successful.
The eight representative organizations will meet with Sébastien Lecornu from 9:30 a.m. in the hope that he will open the door to their main demand: increasing wages. This meeting should in particular make it possible to “examine as a priority concrete measures” likely to improve the situation of public employees, “paying particular attention to agents with the lowest incomes”, according to a letter from the Prime Minister to the unions consulted by AFP.
