Low engagementIn fact on the ground the HRD are confident

Details of Union battle in enterprises. After a summer spent in preparing the ground drawing onto the beaches, the unions will multiply this week the shares to employees for parades on September 7 against the pension reform. More that ever, their participation is erected in priority: mobilization looks strong in traditional strongholds (officials do not décolèrent and a black Tuesday looms in transportation) and plants know that their ability to mobilize new audiences is the key in the balance of power which is committed.

To convince the employees out of the resigned stance adopted in recent months, the intersyndicale insists that "there is play." Friday, Bernard Thibault (CGT) accentuated the pressure holding, on RTL, that Nicolas Sarkozy "seeks out small fire extinguishers" (student housing, amendments on the arduous nature) because it is "nervous".

"Diffuse anger."

Trade unions build in priority on the sectors most affected by the hardship. The CGT made calls to "important" in metallurgy, chemistry, textile or glass. "The date of the 7 is well installed in the landscape and the desire to participate is clear." "We are even detained by employees of businesses where we are not present," says Eric Aubin, responsible for the pension record. The CFDT, the Federation of trade and services also feels "climbing the subject" and hoped a mobilization "more important than on 24 June, which was already strong." Hypnotizes Everywhere, the unions admit "lack of visibility", gradual return of holiday requires, but consider that the ground of challenge is: "employees have had time to become aware of the issues and we can feel very concerned" (CFDT), the number of social plans remains high and "expectations remain strong on wages" (CGT).

Difficult to conclude for as much as the bet, which also aims to lay the foundations of a possible call for a day of national strike, be successful. As explained by Pierre Beretti, Chairman of the cabinet Altedia, the situation is ambivalent. Certainly, "the day is likely to be significant" because "the concerns arising from the crisis are still telling, pensions are a good hook to express these diffuse anger and employees know that if they want to weigh, it is now." But, tempering, "should not neglect the relief begins to appear after encouraging announcements on employment and growth." Actions day also occurs very early for employees focused on their own back. Not to mention that a significant part of them, including managers, is not hostile to reform and that young people are not a priority concern. According to the social expert Jean-Marie Pernot, unions are also faced with "General scepticism" on their modes of action, many employees holding vain to manifest. ("Les echos" of August 24). "Then the previous mobilisations, the participation of the private sector has never been important", noted Denis Monneuse, Director of study in business and personal. And if there is tension in the private sector, they translate "rather by a sense of exasperation and resignation which does not necessarily lead to protest openly."

Low engagement

In fact, on the ground, the HRD are confident. "We already had two successive strikes on this theme and each time the mobilization was low," says Francis Bergeron, HRD of SGS. Same feeling for Sophie Chabot, HRD to the brother white restoration group, which fears not strong mobilization in"an area somewhat where unionized employees are young, they began to work very soon and will rather be favored by the reform."