For the CFDT general secretary, Laurent Berger, the battle for pensions “will never stop.” However, he would rather “make concrete progress” for employees than “pursue an elusive goal,” he explained in an interview with the JDD.
“We are not going to make repeated demonstrations”
The unions have been at the forefront against the pension reform for more than four months, and its promulgation last month has not stopped them, although the social movement has lost steam and the repeal of the text now seems unlikely.
Thus, a new day of mobilization is scheduled for June 6, two days before the vote in the Assembly on Liot’s bill that will refer to the repeal of the reform. Will the battle stop if the deputies do not vote in favor of the annulment of the text?
“Our issue today, within the inter-union, is to ask ourselves if we are throwing this popular force against the wall, making it pursue an objective that is difficult to achieve or are we transforming it into energy to put pressure on our interlocutors. and get concrete progress? I prefer the second option”, he continues.
The battle becomes work
The difficult dialogue between the government and the unions resumed earlier in the week when the centrals met bilaterally with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in Matignon.
After her interview with Élisabeth Borne, the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, stated that she had “they attended a two-hour business monologue”. For her, a multilateral State-union-employer meeting is useless, as Elisabeth Borne wishes, if there are no “concrete announcements on the subject of withdrawing the pension reform or salary increases “. Laurent Berger is, for his part, open to continue the dialogue.
If the government is open to discussion, now it wants to work on the issue of work with the social partners, and thus close the episode of pensions.
Will the inter-union be able to stay together as the front turns to another battle? On the subject of a platform of common measures that should be put online at the end of the month after an inter-union meeting, Laurent Berger tempers possible differences: “We’ll see if an answer comes out that same afternoon. If we can make common demands it’s very good. From Otherwise, the plurality of the trade union movement remains”, he explains.
Source: BFM TV
