The line is not cut.
After a fourth day of mobilization which took place on Saturday February 11 and brought together nearly a million people throughout France, the government took news of the trade union organizations by phoning them.
“
We are in our role.
The Prime Minister and I are trying to keep in touch to see what stage of mobilization the trade union organizations wish to prepare
”, confirmed the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, Monday February 13 on France Info, while the intersyndicale said it wanted to put "
France on hold
" on March 7 in the event of non-withdrawal of the bill.
“
The main thing is to keep in touch
”, added the member of the government, on the front line on the defense of the pension reform.
“
We also recalled that the text follows numerous consultations with them
,” he added.
Before mentioning “
public
” contacts and other “
more informal
” ones.
"
The Prime Minister is free to make the calls she wishes, in the order she wishes
", also estimated the minister, while the boss of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, seems to have been called after his counterparts from CFDT and Force Ouvrière.
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Sunday evening, the secretary general of FO, Frédéric Souillot, thus indicated that he had spoken to Elisabeth Borne on the phone in the last 48 hours.
For his part, Philippe Martinez spoke on Monday morning on BFMTV / RMC of a "
courtesy call
".
“
I think that as we often repeated with my counterparts that we had no news from the government, she must have said to herself, perhaps, that I should call them to avoid letting people think that we leaves aside the trade unions
”, he formulated.
The trade unionist spoke
of a “pure form
” call, during which he would have “
recalled
” that “
the government and the president do not take the measure of what is happening in the country
”.
"
I think she is aware of the broad opposition in the population to this reform
," he added, about Elisabeth Borne.