The CFDT does not abdicate in its challenge to the pension reform. But it is already projecting itself on the demands that it will continue to raise at the end of this long social sequence, all around a vast problem: the working conditions of the employees. This is the main lesson of the interventions of the two leaders of the union organization, Laurent Berger and Yvan Ricordeau, guests respectively of the morning programs of France 2 and BFM Business this Monday morning. “There were 12 days of mobilization with massive participation and there was no attention, no response to the specific world of work, to the lives of the workers,” the CFDT general secretary initially lamented on France 2.
Laurent Berger also recalled that he wanted to discuss the issue of working conditions despite the refusal of the inter-union to respond favorably to Emmanuel Macron’s invitation tomorrow: “We will not leave aside the issues of the distribution of wealth in the company, working conditions aside. We want to talk about all this but doing it 48 hours after having promulgated a law that millions of workers have challenged in the streets and that public opinion continues to defy en masse, is not decent.”
Back to work orders
On the set of BFM Business, Yvan Ricordeau had the same opinion, based on the echoes of the processions of protesters against the pension reform. “When we talked to the people who were demonstrating, in the end they told us very little about pensions, he said. They told us about his professional career and his working conditions and that’s what he said. “We must treat companies better. To better deal with this, we need to establish commissions on working conditions and more resources for local elected officials.”
Clues that led the national secretary of the CFDT to reaffirm the will of the organization to change the rules of social dialogue by returning to Macron’s ordinances of 2017 that disturbed him. “We have seen that the concentration of social dialogue in companies by the CSE group had quite positive elements, that is, a strategic vision, and clearly negative elements with endless meetings because all the issues were concentrated in the same meeting,” he said. he. he observed, advocating for media reinforcement of local elected officials in companies.
Non-abandonment of measures for the work of the elderly
Yvan Ricordeau also regretted the decision of the Constitutional Council to challenge the provisions of the bill relating to the senior index and the senior CDI. “Before talking about the change from 62 to 64, first we had to talk about how we improve the quality of employment for the elderly, he insisted. […] It is about partial work in the last part of the activity, outputs that allow the intensity of work to be reduced to 75 or 60% on which we compensate the social security contributions and this has been a systematic end of inadmissibility by the Government ”.
More generally, the CFDT national secretary advocates discussions around skills development and “a real meeting at 45 to build the second part of a career.”
Source: BFM TV
