The CFDT “will oppose by all means” a pension reform that would go through an amendment to the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS), including leaving the National Council for Refoundation from the discussion table ( CNR), said its secretary general, Laurent Berger. on Sunday. “(If) there is an amendment in the PLFSS on pensions, the CFDT, de facto, comes out of the CNR and the discussions on all the issues,” warned Laurent Berger in France Inter.
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French President Emmanuel Macron promised during his campaign to raise the legal retirement age to 65. The executive has not ruled out that the reform be approved quickly, through the PLFSS presented on September 26 in the Council of Ministers and then examined in Parliament. A “divisive” decision that contradicts the “readiness to listen and openness” shown by Emmanuel Macron within the framework of the CNR, Laurent Berger had already said last week.
The CFDT, which will not participate in the demonstration called by the CGT on September 29, is ready to join forces with the other union organizations on the issue of pensions: “if there is a passage through the PLFSS, the CFDT, with the other unions (…) we will react together (…) We will react by all the means that are those of the union movement,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
