The CFDT, the main trade union organisation, will not join the demonstrations on 1 October alongside the CGT and Solidaires to demand, in particular, the “repeal of the pension reform”, AFP learned on Friday at the union headquarters.
“The CGT decided on a slogan with themes of mobilization, a date and a form of mobilization and proposed it to others once it was decided,” he stressed. However, “this is not the way the inter-union has been working for quite some time,” which is used to working collectively since the mobilizations against the latest pension reform in 2023.
The CGT, following the call of pensioners’ organisations, wants to take advantage of the first day of the debate on the budget in the National Assembly, on 1 October, to demand “the repeal of the pension reform, the increase of salaries and pensions, equality between women and men, financing of our public services”, among others. Only Solidaires joined this call; the other trade union organisations did not comment or refused to participate for the moment.
Three days of mobilization
To get back to work, the CFDT plans to “mobilise all its union teams in the workplace at the end of September”.
On the political side, the CFDT will not participate in the demonstrations on 7 September either, at the initiative of several student unions – the Union des Students and the Union des Écoles Secundaires (USL) – and supported in particular by La France Insoumise, according to Emmanuel. Macron’s “coup de force” with the dissolution. LFI had urged political, trade union and associative forces “committed to the defence of democracy to join this call”.
The CGT has “no role in the appointment of a Prime Minister,” he insisted. The CGT also did not call for the mobilisation on 7 September, considering that political organisations and trade unions had different roles, but its leader, Sophie Binet, told AFP that she hoped it would “be a success”.
Source: BFM TV
