It’s a firm “no.” Guest of France inter this Sunday, Laurent Berger confirmed that he had “no desire for politics.” The man who will leave his position as CFDT general secretary on June 21 to make way for Marylise Léon also clarified that he “did not want to go into the public sphere.”
“I prefer to go and work in the private sphere. I want to have a job that has an impact, that has meaning. There are some prospects and now it’s up to me to fix everything a little bit to make decisions this summer.” ,” he continued.
“Trade unionism is back”
A few days before his departure, Laurent Berger said that he felt “great serenity for the CFDT, which is a trade union organization that is in good shape, which has the confidence of the workers (…), which has become the first union organization. . He also congratulated himself on “having shown that unionism is back” during the last six months marked by the conflict over the pension reform.
On this issue, the union leader criticized the government’s attitude and generally deplored “the contempt for intermediate bodies, the contempt for job seekers and the contempt for low-income workers” that it has shown.
Source: BFM TV
