This Tuesday, the CFDT opens the ball of bilateral meetings between the unions and Elisabeth Borne. "We will first talk to her about pensions by telling her that there is a new appointment at the National Assembly and that we must let this appointment happen," and then "we will tell her that we must repair" what she has "a little damaged in the world of work," said Laurent Berger, questioned on the set of France 2 about his coming to Matignon.
On 8 June, the National Assembly will examine a bill by the Liot Group to repeal the pension reform. The unions are calling for a new day of strike, the 14th, two days before the examination of this bill tabled on the occasion of the parliamentary niche of the group.
Asked about Emmanuel Macron's interview Monday night on TF1 and his promises of tax cuts for households by 2027, Laurent Berger said he "did not applaud". "A reduction in taxes, it does not make a social policy, it does not make an increase in wages, it does not improve working conditions," he said, stressing that these cuts were also "extremely vague".
"How are we going to finance education, the public hospital, the ecological transition? It is a tax cut that is a response to the middle class whose exact knowledge we do not know what it is, there is no precision, "added Laurent Berger. "It is a form of laziness not to want to look differently at the tax policy of our country," added the union leader, who will leave office at the end of June.