The fight continues for the unions. After the announcement of his departure from the CFDT, Laurent Berger wishes to maintain the same course with regard to the pension reform. “The movement against the pension reform continues and it is not on the head and shoulders of a single person,” he explained this morning on the France Inter microphone. When we did about 10 years in a union, you have to know how to pass the hand.
The CFDT general secretary remarkably returned to the next big date of the mobilization against the pension reform: next May 1st. “When you listen, you have to listen. The President of the Republic had the opportunity to listen but did not listen. What is expressed behind the noise of the saucepan is the anger of the world of work. There is a May 1 that we want massively, we invite our international colleagues.
A May Day with an international dimension
The new general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet adopted a similar position in the columns of La Marseillaise, also highlighting the importance of May Day.
“The inter-union puts May 1 in perspective by asking that this date become a historic, unprecedented and exceptional day, stressed Sophie Binet. And this will be unprecedented since, for the first time, all the unions in the country ask for this first of May”.
The CGT leader gave some details about the international dimension that will be given to this day of massive demonstration. “We are going to bring hundreds of union leaders from all over the world to Paris. They will come to show their support for our mobilization, explained Sophie Binet. They will be between 100 and 150, including the leaders of the ETUC and the ITUC. [Confédération européenne des syndicats et Confédération syndicale international, ndlr.] and many federations of the industrial sector”.
Source: BFM TV
