“The social crisis is turning into a democratic crisis.” At the end of the inter-union meeting with the President of the Government, which lasted less than an hour, the CFDT general secretary estimated that the protest movement has changed in character in recent weeks.
During the meeting with Elisabeth Borne, the head of the CFDT spoke about the last three months of social protest, recalling that “more than a million workers parade each week.”
“Workers and citizens massively reject the pension reform that you are proposing. They reject it because it is unfair and brutal,” declared the head of the first French union this morning. Unfair because only the workers are involved. Unfair because the greatest efforts weigh on the shoulders of those who started working early, who have arduous jobs. And this reform project is brutal because it is intended to come into force very quickly, taking thousands of people who had organized their end of career by surprise.
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According to Laurent Berger, the government’s decision to maintain the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 has aroused “distrust of our institutions at an unprecedented level.”
While the Constitutional Council must rule on the bill on April 14, the CFDT leader fears that the decision of the Elders “would further unbalance the bill and further reinforce this rejection, this resentment and this anger” .
In fact, the institution could censor the so-called “social riders”, that is, provisions such as the senior index or the senior CDI that have too indirect an effect on Social Security income or expenditure and, therefore, would not have their place in a Social Security Financing Law (LFSS) as is the case of this reform.
The head of the CFDT wants the social agents and the government to sit down at a table again to start from scratch.
“Organize a social conference around pensions and work and the CFDT will participate, Laurent Berger told Elisabeth Borne. But before that, Madam Prime Minister, can you answer this question: Are you ready to withdraw this reform?”
The answer from the person in question was obviously “no”. This led Laurent Berger to end the meeting on behalf of the inter-union according to Sophie Binet of the CGT.
Source: BFM TV
