The CGT plans to build a social “mobilisation” by “the end of September and the beginning of October”, its general secretary Sophie Binet said on Sunday, referring in particular to the repeal of the pension reform and the state budget for 2025.
“The CGT will organize a mobilization at the beginning of the school year with all those who want it at the end of September or beginning of October. I am not sure that all the unions will be there, but it is not a tragedy,” said the number one of the CGT in an interview with La Vie Ouvrière, the magazine of the union’s activists.
Sophie Binet did not specify the slogans of this future mobilization or its contours, but there is no shortage of demands raised during the interview: the repeal of the pension reform or the 2025 budget accused of being drawn up “on a basis of violent ‘austerity’.”
“Offensive comeback”
“We are working on a comeback on the offensive on the repeal of the pension reform, wages, public services, reindustrialisation, gender equality, etc.,” promised Sophie Binet.
The CGT secretary general continues to criticise Emmanuel Macron, accused of violating “institutional logic” by not nominating Lucie Castets, the candidate proposed by the New Popular Front (NFP) for Matignon.
“The president declared the Olympic truce as a kind of royal testament, but there was no respite in the social crisis that this summer has led to strong attacks on employment, especially in industry,” said Binet.
“We have no interlocutors regarding our struggles, it is the full powers of the employers!” he added.
On the internal front, Sophie Binet welcomed some 70,000 new union members following the pension reform and specified that “in the dynamics between the two rounds” of the legislative elections, for which the union had exceptionally called for people to vote for the NFP, 3 to 4,000 people joined the centre.
Source: BFM TV
