“We are not heard.” Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the CGT, after an interview on Wednesday with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, denounced in BFTMV the government’s lack of listening to its pension reform project.
“There is a dogmatic position of the Prime Minister, but above all of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron […] There is a very personal aspect of Mr. Macron”, he declared on our antenna.
Philippe Martínez, who does not want the French to have to work longer, “made proposals in this regard” to the Prime Minister. That is why he did not consider this dialogue useless.
“This dialogue served to demonstrate that there were alternatives to work until 64 or 65,” he said before adding that not everything is to be thrown away. [dans le projet réforme des retraites]but working longer is unthinkable.”
Mobilizations “starting in January”
When he left Matignon, the general secretary of the CGT had foreseen “important mobilizations starting this month of January.”
“We finished our interview about what was going to happen. I did not hide it from her, but she suspected that there would be large mobilizations starting this month of January,” continued Philippe Martínez, specifying that he did not know “nothing new.”
All unions oppose the postponement of the legal retirement age. CFDT He also assured that he would mobilize against lowering the legal age, as well as the CFTC or Labor Force.
Source: BFM TV
