After six months of unbreakable unity demonstrated in spring by the unions during the mobilization against the pension reform, the latter registered on Friday a new “phase” of the inter-union that will meet occasionally to prepare the social agenda. “It is the transformation of the inter-union”, confided Cyril Chabanier (CFTC) after a meeting between unions, recalling that “we are no longer in the same moment as during the mobilization against pensions.”
“We will not keep everything in a closet,” he insists, but “there will be no inter-union movement like the one we have seen for six months.” For Frédéric Souillot (FO), “inter-union mobilization is a beautiful tool but, for the moment, we put the beautiful tool in the toolbox.” “We recognized that we were no longer in the same phase,” confirmed Simon Duteil, general co-delegate of Solidaires.
European Mobilization Day on December 12 in Brussels
The discussion between the union leaders passed “calm, calm,” several participants said, although some had already become a little angry, accusing the CGT of a sometimes hegemonic attitude.
Although a new series of negotiations will be opened, in particular on the employment of older people, the Universal Time Savings Account or the difficulty, the inter-union stressed “the need to try to work in a united manner between representative organizations to define some common red lines and some common demands,” reports Sophie Binet. The leaders “will continue to see each other regularly,” she says, and are preparing the European day of mobilization on December 12 in Brussels for wages and against austerity policies, in which “several thousand French people” should participate. , according to the unions.
Source: BFM TV
