The inter-union “solemnly requests” this Friday the President of the Republic to “not promulgate the law” on pension reform, after the decision of the Constitutional Council to validate the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years.
“Given the massive rejection of this reform, the inter-union solemnly asks that the law not be promulgated, the only way to calm the anger that is expressed in the country,” he wrote in a press release published after the decision. the Constitutional Council.
Calling on the employees to make May 1 “a day of exceptional popular mobilization against the pension reform and for social justice”, she “decides (until then) not to accept meetings with the executive”, says -they have.
The inter-union requests the validation of the second PIR
“Today, the Constitutional Council has censured 6 articles of the law. The lack of ambition that it contained regarding the employment of the elderly, the right to information, the hardships for contracted employees of the public service… have disappeared from the final text. While it was already unfair, the text of the law that postpones the legal retirement age is now even more unbalanced,” lamented the eight main French unions, as well as five youth organizations.
After noting that the Elders also rejected the first draft parliamentary initiative aimed at organizing a Shared Initiative Referendum (RIP), the inter-union calls for the validation of the second RIP, which will allow “breaking the impasse through a democratic consultation”. .
The Council must issue its opinion on this PIR on May 3. The inter-union also wants a “new deliberation” in Parliament, “as provided for in article 10 of the Constitution, on the basis of a consultation focused on labor issues.” “It would be a choice of wisdom and appeasement,” she says.
Source: BFM TV
