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Pension reform: "a risk" that the movement "degenerates", warns Berger

2023-02-08T10:08:23.554Z


For the leader of the CFDT Laurent Berger, the absence of a response from the government in the face of the challenge entails a risk that the movement will


Will the movement evolve?

While this week is marked by two days of mobilization against the pension reform – one took place on Tuesday, the other will take place this Saturday – a little music is starting to be heard: the challenge could well harden.

“For now, the priority is Saturday.

Then we will see, ”tempered Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT, on RMC-BFMTV this Wednesday morning.

If the mobilization is “very strong” and the crowd “determined”, it is also very “calm.

(…) The demonstrations are going well,” he commented.

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But the unions face “a government that does not want to listen to the popular movement”.

For him, this is also the real "hardening".

And, if the majority persists in this “democratic fault”, it will “pay” for it.

"It's not a threat, it's a collective warning", immediately nuanced Laurent Berger, warning of "a risk that it degenerates".

" We do not have a choice "

Invited to LCI this Wednesday morning, Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the CGT, also felt that it was "the government and especially Emmanuel Macron" who were forcing the unions "to raise their voices" by acting "as if nothing was happening. in this country ".

" We do not have a choice.

(…) We must show more determination”, he hammered, wishing the establishment of strikes “for everyone and wherever possible”.

If, for his part, the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, recalled that he did not think "that blocking is the solution", he affirmed that there was "no flaw" in the inter-union organization and that everyone "agreed" on the main lines of the movement.

He also expressed his incomprehension in the face of the total absence of “signals” from the majority.

“With the Yellow Vests, there was a lot of violence and the government ended up granting money,” recalled the union representative on the set of BFM.

“Is that what we have to get to?

What is the democratic perspective of a country that does not respond to 1.5 million people in the street, but responds to a violent movement (which did) less mobilization?

he wondered.

A comparison mentioned a few minutes earlier by Marine Le Pen.

Guest of the "4 Truths" on France 2, the RN deputy wished to be able to "avoid arriving at the violence and blockages" that the country had known with "yellow vests".

Source: leparis

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