No regrets in the union ranks at the end of the Matignon meeting. But an acknowledgment of failure of the words of Cyril Chabanier, who took the floor first to read the inter-union press release. Faced with this situation, the CFTC president indicated that the different organizations were not open to discussing other issues until she obtained the withdrawal of the text, the only “democratic solution.” “We refuse to turn the page and open, as the Government wishes, other sequences of consultations on topics as diverse as full employment or value sharing, our organizations in each of the suggested files may formulate, when the time comes. , proposals likely to improve the existence of our fellow citizens. But the time has not come.”
“Discussing the development decrees of a law whose withdrawal we request”
Union leaders have notably criticized the Prime Minister’s requests to deal with other issues that they consider directly related to age or secondary or even simply inappropriate. “We had the impression that we did not live in the same world,” summarized Frédéric Souillot, general secretary of Force Ouvrière. They told us about issues that needed to be discussed, but at the inter-union we told him that we would do it. I will not discuss anything until this reform is withdrawn.”
The same story on the side of the strong figure of the trade union union, Laurent Berger, who believes that “the issues of wear and tear at work, wages, employment of the elderly are important issues but correlated with that of pensions.” “This idea of suspending to sit down at the table again and talk about work, if the 64 years are not promulgated, will continue to be interesting,” recalled the CFDT general secretary who had been advocating for a mediation phase for several days. he said ‘no’, so we went to the other option, which is the question of withdrawal.”
The CGT promises an ungovernable country without withdrawal of the text
Laurent Berger is also the one who ended the meeting when Elisabeth Borne confirmed that she did not wish to accede to the request of the organizations whose leaders took turns trying to reason with the head of government. “Each and every one of the union leaders tried with their words to touch the brain of the government, said the new general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet. We are not here to have elements of language, to have exchanges of lewd speech. We are here to discuss the state of the country, to talk about their responsibility”.
The head of the CGT mentioned the multiple issues for consultation that a withdrawal from the text would open, such as the financing proposals put forward by the unions “starting with professional equality between women and men that would allow the entire deficit of the pension funds to be reduced.” “Finally we could talk about the issue of wages because, for the first time, wages in constant euros are falling and millions of French people are losing money and can no longer fill their fridge and whose qualifications are no longer recognised,” he stressed. Withdraw this reform, the environmental issue could finally be discussed, while the IPCC issued an alarming report a few days ago that went unnoticed by this pension reform”.
Source: BFM TV
