What could be better than a birthday reception? While Élisabeth Borne blows out the candle of her first year at Matignon, it is time to take stock and perspectives. At the end of a major social movement against the pension reform, which did not lead the executive to back down - while damaging relations between the unions and the government - the Prime Minister receives Tuesday and Wednesday, the organizations one by one. On Tuesday, she spoke with FO and the CFDT. On Wednesday, it will do the same with the CFE-CGC and the CFTC and the CGT.
Objective: to try to turn the page on the pension reform, whose political and constitutional method has suffered the wrath of political and trade union opposition. And move forward on the next projects planned in a future "social agenda" for a "new pact of life at work", which will be the subject of a bill in the coming months.
Wages and inflation on the menu
At the end of his meeting with the prime minister on Tuesday, the boss of Force Ouvrière Frédéric Souillot, him, hopes that Elisabeth Borne "will listen because she told us on leaving that she had told us that she would not withdraw this reform." And to be pessimistic: "We were frank and direct on both sides of the table. We opened the ball but we didn't dance." In addition to the question of pensions, the trade unionist, who offered the host of Matignon a red badge demanding the "withdrawal" of the reform, also exchanged with her on the "increase of wages, pensions and social minimas because inflation continues and the priority for workers is to see their purchasing power maintained. Unlike an interview with the unions that was cut short in early April, the Premier was able to discuss the other hot issues of the moment, such as the wage issue.
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Frédéric Souillot also demanded from the head of government a "thaw of the index point" of civil servants "at the height of inflation", and a "boost to the Smic". For his counterpart of the CFDT Laurent Berger, who was received a little later, the prevention by the majority to examine the bill of the group Liot, - aiming to repeal on June 8 the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years - "would be unacceptable". His union will also "continue (the) mobilization on the issue of pensions". A new day of mobilization is already planned for June 6.
While she will be Wednesday in Matignon, the secretary general of the CGT Sophie Binet spoke this Tuesday in Le Parisien. According to her, "mistrust will remain extremely deep". She will, however, meet with the premier "to make demands. To negotiate, not to discuss." "Our conditions are to build a clear tripartite negotiating framework in multilateral, with the guarantee that our proposals will be taken into account."