The CFDT “continues to oppose any postponement of the legal retirement age” and “any parallel increase in the contribution period,” it said on Monday in The Figaro its secretary general, Laurent Berger, in reaction to the compromise proposed by Emmanuel Macron.
The President of the Republic declared last week “totally open” to giving up the goal of 65 years, “if in addition to 64 years we lengthen the quarters.”
“We are far from the bankruptcy of the system”
“On the postponement of the legal retirement age, to 65 or 64 years, the CFDT is clear: no”, answers Laurent Berger, who denies that the “survival of the system” is at stake: “We are looking for ten billion euros per year in the medium term, out of a total of 320,000 million in spending. We are far from the bankruptcy of the system”.
However, the CFDT does not intend to “abandon the consultation” opened by the Government, unlike its rival the CGT, which continues with the days of strike and demonstration -the next one is scheduled for November 10-.
In its last congress in June, the CFDT rejected any extension of the retirement age, as well as any extension of the contribution period.
Source: BFM TV
