French unions call for protests before pension judgment. Union activists stormed the Paris offices of luxury goods major LVMH (LVMH.PA) on Thursday, demanding that the French government abandon plans to make pensioners work longer and tax the affluent more.

On the 12th day of statewide protests since mid-January, striking employees hindered Paris rubbish collection and Rhine river traffic in eastern France.

“You want pension money?” Take it from the pockets of billionaires,” cried Sud Rail unionist Fabien Villedieu as the LVMH offices filled with red smoke. The demonstrators then departed peacefully.

A day before the Constitutional Council’s verdict on the measure to raise the state pension age to 64, trade unions called for a public demonstration.

The government will publish the law if the Council approves, probably with limitations, hoping to quell violent protests and broad discontent towards Macron.

If the Council approved the measure, demonstrators claimed they would continue campaigning for a referendum or a return to parliament.

“I hope there are people who will reason with the president, and tell him: Emmanuel, please, listen to the people,” 45-year-old dietitian Christine Robieux said at the Paris event.

Demonstrators temporarily blocked a Council building access road with garbage bins and hung a “Constitutional Censorship” banner across the street.

The industrial action has slowed, and rallies have drawn fewer people than the more than 1 million who attended early in the movement.

But unions remained defiant.

“This is certainly not the last day of the strike,” Sophie Binet, the new leader of the hard-left CGT union, declared at an incinerator barricade outside Paris.

After the Council decides to work on alternative suggestions, Macron has stated he will meet with unions. Still, union leaders believe it will be short-lived if he doesn’t discuss abandoning the pension change.

“After three months of mobilization, there comes exhaustion. We are fatigued, but a mobilisation is like a marathon,” Sud Rail’s Villedieu stated. “We won’t give up.”

Political commentators fear the government’s reform’s broad unhappiness might bolster the far right.

“I’m not that optimistic about the Constitutional Council’s decision,” said far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who opposes the pension law, to BFM TV. What should I do? Burn cars? “Vote National Rally,” we’ll tell the French.

Macron’s administration says the bill is vital to save France’s rich pension system.

Unions argue there are alternative ways.

Earlier this week, refining activities began at TotalEnergies’ (TTEF.PA) Gonfreville refinery, France’s largest by barrels-per-day, the last of the company’s domestic refineries to reopen following a month-long shutdown.

A TotalEnergies representative said Thursday’s refined goods delivery from two locations was affected.

A union spokesman told Reuters that EDF workers cut electricity at a canal lock near the German-Swiss border on the Rhine, disrupting freight traffic.

Thursday’s demonstrations saw small skirmishes but nothing like last month’s.