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Pensions: frustrated, unions cut ties with the executive

2023-04-16T18:01:43.905Z


For three months, the intersyndicale has used all the weapons at its disposal, without ever achieving the desired objective.


After the mobilization, then the hardening, here comes the hour of the rupture.

Worried that the government is trying to turn the page on pensions, now that the text has been promulgated, the unions refuse the outstretched hand of Emmanuel Macron, who offered them a meeting on Tuesday.

"It's not lighthearted.

The raison d'être of the employee representatives is to be in the exchange

, underlines Sophie Binet, the new general secretary of the CGT,

but it is the only way to make the executive listen to reason.

For three months, the inter-union has used all the weapons at its disposal, without ever achieving the objective: to roll back the government on the age of 64 years.

Initially, the great days of mobilization succeeded in putting millions of French people on the streets, but without gaining more than a few measures on hardship or long careers, deemed insufficient.

The general strikes were downright a failure.

Prepared for long weeks, the “France at a standstill” day on March 7 only led to a few sporadic initiatives in the usual strongholds (SNCF, EDF, etc.), far, very far from the targeted objectives.

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There remains therefore the refusal of the invitation of the Head of State, to express the anger of the field.

A feeling that could quickly overflow and become uncontrollable, warn employee representatives.

"The government bears full responsibility

," gets carried away Thomas Vacheron, member of the management of the CGT.

But the inter-union does not admit defeat.

If the first RIP has been rejected, a second is still under consideration.

The Constitutional Council should decide on May 3.

"Breaking the House"

Before that, the thirteen organizations of employees and students meet for a "historic" May Day.

"We want to break the house in terms of demonstrators

," Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT, told Le

Parisien

on Sunday .

There is also the law enforcement stage.

“On the decrees, the concrete implementation of the measures, we are not going to let go of the government.

We will fight until the end”

, promised Laurent Berger.

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For her part, Elisabeth Borne wants to speed up on several subjects such as

"the value of work"

or

"the emancipation of individuals"

.

For the sake of appeasement, she warned that she was counting on the social partners to move forward.

But among those interested, the proposal is struggling to hit the bull's eye.

"What's the point of going to discuss, all our proposals on salaries, bonuses, we have already given them during previous discussions"

, sweeps Frédéric Souillot, leader of Force Ouvrière.

Even the CFDT prefers to temper.

“There is a delay of decency”

, launches its secretary general, who warns that it would not go without

“guarantee on the method”

and

“on the subjects approached”

.

Source: lefigaro

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