Will the long-awaited meeting between Elisabeth Borne and the inter-union union scheduled for early next week come to an end?
In fact, the question of raising the legal age of departure to 64 will not be addressed, warned the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, and the president of Modem, François Bayrou.
The postponement of the age from 62 to 64 years, “this is the heart of the reform on which, from the outset, there is no agreement”, declared Franck Riester in the Public Senate. “In life there are times when you have to know how to recognize that there are also issues (on which) we do not agree,” he added, hoping that the exchange would be organized around “issues on which we agree.”
“We can’t change lines at this point”
“The 64 years are in the text,” added François Bayrou on France2, “we cannot change the line at this point.” But for him, “there is something to discuss” if he “listens carefully to what Laurent Berger said”, the general secretary of the CFDT, the first French union.
The High Commissioner for Planning, an ally of Emmanuel Macron, recalled that “the government has said ‘no one will work from the age of 43 to have all their pension rights’, so it is seen that the positions are not really that far apart .
Problem, Laurent Berger repeated this Thursday that 64 years should be at the center of the discussions, although other issues associated with labor issues could also be.
“You have to suspend the 64 years and return to the table of employment, work and give social commitment a chance when political commitment has failed,” explains the manager.
And to warn that, in the absence of a government response to the demonstrations and the anger of the French, there will be “resentment that everyone will pay dearly for.”
Source: BFM TV
