Demonstrators and consumers at the same time

A few days ago, october 12th, Angers was the scene of another demonstration against the government's project to reform the pension system. Most of the people walking in the streets were, according to the placards, civil servants or people working in the public sector (education, health, social organizations). But many of their counterparts in the private sector continued to work and the demonstrators needed them.

For the event, most of the lorries were rented by trade unions at supermarkets renting services which certainly were opened for business that day. But, because walking in the streets on that sunny morning made people hungry, after the demonstration, some of their leaders went to the restaurants in the nearby where cookers, barmaid were at work.

The logic would have been for the strikers not to go in such places in order to demonstrate their solidarity with the workers whom they said they have not the opportunity to strike. They acted like pure consumers ignorant of the constraints the workers of the private sector face.