“If the government persists” à vouloir faire “passer en force une mauvaise réforme” des retraites, il y aura “des mobilisations et des grèves dès le mois de janvier”, a mis en garde mercredi le secretaire général de la CGT, Philippe Martinez , on South Radio. The government was set to unveil the pension reform on Thursday, but Emmanuel Macron finally declared on Monday that the presentation of the reform had been postponed to January 10, noting in particular the need to continue discussion with certain unions.
An “unjustified” reform
Assessing this reform as “bad”, “not justified”, he recalled that the CGT had made proposals to improve the situation of retirees and future retirees. “For the moment, the discussion is limited to telling us: we want to delay the retirement age to 65 years,” he lamented, criticizing a “dogmatic” position. Claiming to discuss “very regularly” with the other unions, he warned: “there will be strikes in January if the government keeps forcing a bad reform.”
Mardi soir, les huit principales union organizations (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU) et cinq organizations de jeunesse ont published a communiqué réaffirmant leur opposition à tout recul de l’âge légal de départ à retirement. They promise to meet “following the announcement of the reform to build a common response of interprofessional mobilization, starting in January, if the Government maintains its project.”
Source: BFM TV
