A few days after the official presentation of the pension reform by Élisabeth Borne, on January 10, the leader of the CFDT Laurent Berger expressed his firm opposition to the postponement of the legal retirement age, as indicated this Saturday in Parisian.
“There Will Be No Deal”
“It must be clear, even with positive measures on long careers or hardships, we continue to oppose the reform with a measure of age. There will be no deal with the CFDT,” says the general secretary of the CFDT, the first French union. .
Three days after the presentation of an explosive pension reform scheduled for Tuesday, the unions are increasing pressure against the Government that plans to introduce a probable postponement of the retirement age to 64, with accompanying measures on the employment of elderly or deprived people.
“If Élisabeth Borne continues to think that the appropriate reform is the postponement of the age of majority, we will do everything possible to make the government back down. And we will use all the levers that are ours! ”, Warned the No. 1 of the CFDT, who will meet with her counterparts on Tuesday night to consider a joint response to the government project.
“The CFDT is ready to call the employees to mobilize. In different ways: demonstrations, initiatives in the professional sectors, calls for strikes…”, he stressed.
“The French did not discharge”
Laurent Berger goes so far as to warn Elisabeth Borne: “Attention, Madam Prime Minister, today there is a lot of social tension, many social difficulties, anguish, conflict, many negative feelings in the population…”.
It is also false against the executive’s argument assuring that the pension reform would draw its legitimacy from the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in 2022 from the one that appeared on the program.
“The French did not register pensions at the time of the presidential elections, we must stop telling stories,” he said.
“If we fought so much between the two rounds of the presidential election, it was to avoid the election of Marine Le Pen, obviously it was not because we wanted to turn 65,” he said and continued.
It also calls on political movements to let the unions lead the coming social movement as left-wing parties united under the Nupes banner plan a joint meeting starting on January 17 in Paris.
“I think that the parties on the left would be inspired to let us manage the social mobilization. It is up to the unions to set the tone and give the starting gun to the mobilization,” asked Laurent Berger.
Source: BFM TV
