He thinks it will be 64 “instead of 65”. Laurent Berger says that he has the feeling that the government will decide on a pension reform with a retirement age set at 64 years.
But for the CFDT general secretary, such a provision will remain “unacceptable”, he said on RTL.
“64 or 65 years old, at the moment we don’t know, Madame Borne still receives unions and employer organizations today (…). I have a feeling that she will be 64 years old, but I could be wrong. In any case, we did not have the opportunity to say that there would be no increase in the legal age”, declared the head of the first French union, received the day before by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
An unfair system, an unacceptable reform, criticizes Berger
Going back to previous reforms, he said that the 2003 reform responded to “a pension system whose viability was seriously threatened” and that, therefore, this reform was “necessary.” In 2010-2013 there were “more or less the same forecasts, less brutal, but with a huge deterioration of the accounts.”
But “today it is not the same. It does not mean that there is no deficit, but we can discuss that deficit, how we fill it,” added Laurent Berger.
Towards a common mobilization of trade unions
Asked about his meeting the day before in Matignon, the trade unionist stressed that “a discussion is never useless”: “The Prime Minister listens to us, she is a serious person”, but “she is on a line that is not ours”. today”.
Elisabeth Borne still meets today with representatives of trade unions and employers’ organizations on the issue of pensions.
“We want to do it together so much that none of us is going to say it alone on the radio or television. That doesn’t mean we agree on everything, we don’t have the same approach. But we don’t want this lowering of the legal retirement age .
Source: BFM TV
