What would you do when your country attempted this? Would you work more days for the same money? Do you believe it does any good?
I have nothing to do and it will not be of any pain for me because I am not a government worker, I have my own business and I have to do it in order to make money. The more I work the more the money I will make. I will rather prefer to stay not saying anything about it.
This is where a self employed individual running his own business venture has much of an advantage over the public workers, no one gets to dictate when you have to works, what hours, your holidays or extensions. The more energy and time you exert to your business determines the increment in profit you'll be making at the end of the day, week or month, but unlike the public servant the salary remains static for a long period of time even with extra working hours on certain days.
Or is it just another method of old systems to transfer the pain to ordinary people, and to pretend that things will be better soon?
Yes, they just want to transfer the pain to people. The French government should do something about it and find alternatives instead.
Similarly in my country this has been a common culture with each administrations. They loot public funds and indirectly passover their burden of funding certain government projects and infrastructures on the citizens by raising more funds through increased taxes and high tariff.