What will be the result of the social movement against the pension reform? Laurent Berger spoke about this issue during his speech on the BFMTV set a few hours after the inter-union meeting in Matignon, which did not result in the announcement of the withdrawal of the text that the organizations were expecting.
“Perhaps there is no way out and this law is promulgated and applied, indicated the general secretary of the CFDT. We will continue to say what we think of this. The implementing decrees will have to be written and they are of the utmost importance. Because when you touch the decrees You touch people’s lives.”
The union leader, for his part, considered that Emmanuel Macron was not in a position of strength “in a country that rejects the reform so much with so much protest and such a low level of confidence.”
“The challenge is still just as strong”
On the eve of an eleventh day of mobilization, Laurent Berger is convinced that “the challenge remains just as strong and will continue to be so tomorrow.” The CFDT representative highlighted in particular the rate of strikers in the private sector that has been “historically high” in the social movement as a whole: “I know entrepreneurs from small companies with 150 or 200 employees who have had 10-15% of their employees who left on certain days of mobilization”.
Laurent Berger remains optimistic about the day of mobilization this Thursday, April 6. “March 7, 16 and 23 were the three days with levels of mobilization that had not been seen since the 1980s, he insisted. And then sometimes there are weaker moments because it weighs on the purchasing power of employees. And I think that tomorrow we will start to get up again”. As a reminder, territorial intelligence expects between 600 and 800,000 people on the streets across France, including between 60 and 90,000 in Paris alone.
Source: BFM TV
