Laurent Berger heard “nothing concrete” in Emmanuel Macron’s speech. Guest of BFMTV this Monday night, the general secretary of the CFDT criticized “a kind of emptiness” in the intervention of the President of the Republic and considered that the Head of State “had not understood” the reasons for the anger of the French.
For the CFDT general secretary, “it is once again a speech about the method,” he said after Emmanuel Macron offered to receive the unions “tomorrow morning” during his televised address.
“The door has been triple closed for three months. Very clearly, for May 1 there will be no meeting” between the inter-union and the government, said Laurent Berger.
“The CFDT will return to discuss a lot of topics, but first we want to clarify the method: is it a real co-construction or is it to modify already tied projects?” added Laurent Berger.
Demonstrations on May 1
The inter-union had already announced at the end of last week that it would not meet with the executive before the demonstrations on May 1, which it wants to be massive, because it does not intend to consider that the retirement reform episode is over.
“The answer cannot lie either in immobility or in extremism,” defended the French president who announced that he wanted to address various other issues to improve the lives of the French: school, crime, congestion in health services, emergencies and social fraud.
“We have before us 100 days of appeasement, unity, ambition and action at the service of France”, proclaimed Emmanuel Macron, when making an appointment “on July 14”, a French national holiday, to “make an initial assessment”.
Source: BFM TV
