A passage in force on the pension reform would direct the unions, starting with the CFDT.
The union "will oppose by all means" a pension reform that would go through an amendment to the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS), including leaving the discussion table of the National Council for Refoundation ( CNR), said its secretary general Laurent Berger on Sunday.
“(If) there is an amendment in the PLFSS on pensions, the CFDT, de facto, it comes out of the CNR and discussions on all subjects”, warned Laurent Berger on France Inter.
“Yes we will go out because there will be disloyalty”, insisted the boss of the first French union, denouncing in advance a “brutal measure” which would show a “form of contempt for the trade union organizations”.
Laurent Berger (@CfdtBerger) on the subject of pension reform: "If there is disloyalty through the PLFSS [social security financing bill], the CFDT will stop discussions within the framework of the National Council of the refoundation" #QuestionsPol pic.twitter.com/AtzbiFj2Fs
– France Inter (@franceinter) September 18, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron promised during his campaign to raise the legal retirement age to 65.
The executive has not ruled out that the reform will be adopted quickly, via the PLFSS presented on September 26 in the Council of Ministers and then examined in Parliament.
Bayrou also opposed to a forced passage
In an interview with Le Parisien this Sunday, MoDem boss François Bayrou also warned against such a method, although he is allied with Emmanuel Macron.
“If we embark on this path, then we are sure to first coalesce the oppositions between them, then to divide French society”, he justified, calling for “gathering” rather than “opposing”.
The CFDT, which will not participate in the demonstration at the call of the CGT on September 29, is ready to join forces with the other trade union organizations on the subject of pensions, warned Laurent Berger: "If there is a passing through the PLFSS, the CFDT, with the other trade union organizations (…) we will react together (…) We will react by all the means that are those of the trade union movement.
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“Nobody wants a forced passage”, assures Séjourné
“There will be a debate in Parliament” on the pension reform, insisted on Sunday Stéphane Séjourné, secretary general of Renaissance, stressing that the activation of article 49.3, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, would represent "also a form of risk for the government".
And the framework of the majority party to ensure: “Nobody wants a passage in force on this pension reform.
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But the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, was less clear on France 3 that same day, not excluding a measure in the PLFSS in October.
The passage of the measure to the Assembly, “it can be in October, as it can be in the spring.
(…) this is part of the possible procedures”, he said, specifying that he wanted to reserve the “first information” for the social partners whom he must meet on Monday.
