What is the position of the CGT on Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to the discussion? Invited this morning to the BFMTV set, Sophie Binet recalled that the union organization “is never in favor of an empty chair” but admitted that it would have “difficulties finding relationships of trust” until this reform is eliminated.
The general secretary of the CGT denounced in particular the attitude of the executive throughout this social sequence: “We are facing a total hypocrisy with, on the one hand, a government that for three, even six months, refuses to listen to the proposals of unions to fund our pension plan, who refuses to meet with us and who suddenly pushes his reform into law on a weekend night and wakes up the next day saying “I want to welcome the unions.”
Prioritize the employment of older people
Sophie Binet believes that things are being done out of order, such as the issue of employment for the elderly, on which the President of the Republic calls on the social partners to work to reach solutions before the end of the year.
“It was necessary to start with the employment of the elderly before carrying out this violent reform, he insists. It is the employment of the elderly that conditions that we can possibly extend and postpone the retirement age. Today there is a massive unemployment since more than half of people over 60 are not at work and don’t retire because we don’t want it.”
Ways to increase wages.
Although inflation is not weakening, Sophie Binet also criticized the absence of the term “salaries” in the vocabulary of the Head of State, who prefers to send the ball back to employers to increase them. “The government has levers for action and the CGT has a simple proposal: it is called the sliding scale of salaries that existed until 1983 in France and is still in force in Belgium. This is equivalent to indexing wages to prices so that wages rise automatically. with the prices”.
The general secretary of the CGT also considers that companies could be asked to contribute: “Every year we spend 200,000 million in public aid for companies without compensation or conditions. If we condition this public aid to the social or environmental, we would have a lever to act on companies and we could condition the payment of this aid to the conclusion of salary agreements so that salaries increase.
Source: BFM TV
