Laurent Berger asks to “pause” the pension reform. Guest this Friday morning at RTL, the CFDT general secretary asked the government for “a period of dialogue” to “calm things down.” During his television interview last Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron spoke of “wear and tear at work, employment of the elderly, end-of-career planning”, or “these issues should be in the pension reform”, he advanced, believing that the government he had put “the cart before the horse.”
“It’s time”
“Now is the time” to welcome the unions, “not to explain to us what we would not have understood” but “to say: we are taking a breather,” said the union leader. “We are waiting six months,” suggests Laurent Berger, referring to “why not” the appointment of a mediator to help the two parties talk to each other. And to add: “In these cases, it is necessary to give a signal to the world of work. The CFDT general secretary also invites the executive to use these six months “to look at work and pensions” and see how it is done. “turn things upside down” with the unions’ proposals.
Because “contrary to what was said on Wednesday, there are proposals on the table,” he said. “We will find the compromise if possible.”
Source: BFM TV
