Elisabeth Borne finally receives this Wednesday at 10 am the representatives of the inter-union union on the eve of the 11th day of demonstrations and strikes. The Prime Minister will receive the new General Secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, as well as Laurent Berger (General Secretary of the CFDT), Frédéric Souillot (General Secretary of FO), Benoit Teste (General Secretary of the Unitary Trade Union Federation, FSU). , Laurent Escure (general secretary of the National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions, UNSA), François Hommeril (president of CFE-CGC) and Cyril Chabanier (president of the CFTC).
This meeting has been demanded for several weeks by opponents of the pension reform. If the inter-union first asked to be received by Emmanuel Macron. the Head of State had sent them to the Prime Minister, who in turn sent them to the Minister of Labour… before the reform was adopted through article 49.3.
For the Prime Minister, this meeting is intended as a sign of appeasement. On the contrary, the member unions of this inter-union do not see it that way. They demand the withdrawal of the reform and do not intend to give in one iota.
“It may take five minutes”
If the executive refuses to talk about the 64 years, “we are leaving,” warned the leader of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, who must also demand a social conference on work and pensions.
The firmness of the positions of one and the other suggests that the meeting should not ease tensions. This meeting “is already written”, considers a prominent minister, who has a dead end.
Laurent Berger bets on the Constitutional Council in the hope that the law will be “censored”. And “if there is censorship of particular points such as the senior index, labor hardships, etc., but not 64-year-olds, then that will not respond in any way to the ongoing social conflict,” warns Laurent Berger. The Constitutional Council will make its decision on April 14.
Source: BFM TV
