And five. This Wednesday, Force Ouvrière confirmed to Le Figaro to have accepted the invitation of Elisabeth Borne, sent at the end of last week. The union, led by Frédéric Souillot, will therefore go to Matignon on May 16, at 18:15 p.m. For the secretary general of the organization, the objective is twofold: "First to explain to the prime minister that she must withdraw her pension reform and then, to talk about the method. We must restore the place it has to give back to collective bargaining."
All the unions invited - the CGT, the CFDT, the CFE-CGC, Force Ouvrière and the CFTC - therefore accepted the Prime Minister's invitation. The meetings will take place over two days, from May 16 to 17. For its part, the Montreuil power plant had announced Saturday that it was grasping the outstretched hand. However, "if Elisabeth Borne tells us 'I do not withdraw the pension reform and I want to discuss measures that represent social regressions for employees'; of course, the appointment will quickly turn short," said Sunday on franceinfo the confederal secretary of the CGT, Celine Verzeletti. "We are certainly not going to give up," she added, "we hope that the government comes to its senses because if it stays on its initial positions, it is a real problem. This means that it does not take into account the current social context at all. That would be a real political mistake on his part."
For his part, the boss of the CFDT also remains on his guard: the "battle" against the pension reform "is not over," assured Laurent Berger. "We will have a requirement of method" and we "would like to know if it is to negotiate, discuss or 'blabate'," he said last Thursday.
For the time being, no "precise agenda" on these bilateral negotiations has been mentioned by Matignon. This meeting comes a little more than a month after the previous interview with Elisabeth Borne, which had been cut short. The unions then announced a new day of mobilization on Tuesday, June 6.
