The pension reform has passed, but Sophie Binet’s fierce desire to tear it down has not. Before meeting this Wednesday afternoon with the President of the Government to close the dance of talks with Elisabeth Borne, opened on Tuesday by FO and the CFDT, the general secretary of the CGT put things in order this morning on France Inter.
VertBaudet tops the list
The list is long. He wants to talk about the strike at VertBaudet as a priority. She claims to “cease all proceedings against the strikers and open a national mediation with the general leadership of the group.” “I invite Emmanuel Macron to come to a picket in (…) in Tourcoing, the city of Gérald Darmanin,” Sophie Binet called. Other hot topics will be on the table.
“To discuss, I have friends and colleagues”
The list of demands goes on. “I want the indexing of wages to prices, as it existed in France until 1983. (…), the improvement of working conditions by strengthening the power of staff representatives with the restoration of the CHSCT.”
Regarding working time, Sophie Binet wants to negotiate the 4-day week with the reduction of work to 32 hours. “It is what is lived in Spain and in a certain number of French companies, in particular LDLC”, alleges the trade unionist.
“A Bad Answer to a Real Question”
On the stabilization of unemployment announced this morning by the Insee, the general secretary of the CGT believes that there is “nothing to croak knowing that in France there are 5 million people without work.” He also points out that “the decline is taking place in all the countries of the world and France is above the European average”.
As for lowering taxes to improve the purchasing power of the middle classes, he sees it as a “poisoned gift.” “That is the wrong answer to a real question. The correct answer is to increase wages.
Source: BFM TV
