Unions were quick to react to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne’s pension reform presentation on Tuesday 10th January. The text provides for a decrease in the legal retirement age to 64 years, together with an acceleration of the extension of the contribution period to 43 by 2027.
Meeting this Tuesday night, the unions announce a first day of mobilization on January 19. This date marks “the beginning of a powerful mobilization” against the pension reform, announced the general secretary of the CFDT Laurent Berger. The inter-union will meet at the end of this day to agree on other initiatives.
“This reform will affect all workers, and more particularly those who started working early, the most precarious, whose life expectancy is lower than that of the rest of the population”, declared Laurent Berger in the first place. “Nothing justifies such a brutal reform,” he lashed out.
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