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Laurent Berger's confidences: "Work is not alienation, it is emancipation"

2023-06-09T17:02:24.016Z

Highlights: Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT, will leave office on June 21. He has just published Du mépris à la colère, published by Éditions du Seuil. He says it is not yet time to draw all the lessons from the episode of the pension reform. But it is high time to put work back at the heart of the reflection, he says. The work was no longer in the political debate before the pandemic crisis. It is a subject that is caught in a pincer movement.


INTERVIEW - Laurent Berger gives himself, a few days before handing over to Marylise Léon at the head of the first union of France.


The secretary general of the CFDT, who will leave office on June 21, has just published Du mépris à la colère. Essai sur la France au travail, published by Éditions du Seuil.

LE FIGARO. - You write in your book that it is not yet time to draw all the lessons from the episode of the pension reform, but that it is high time to put work back at the heart of the reflection. Has it moved that far from it?

Laurent BERGER.- Proof of this is that it has returned to the public debate with the pandemic crisis. Before that, the work was no longer in the political debate. It is a subject that is caught in a pincer movement. On the one hand, there is a vision where it is considered only as an economic and productive data, which has a cost. On the other, it is seen as a factor of alienation, misery. And in between, there are millions of employees who consider it what it is, namely a social reality, which occupies a good part of their day. All these people feel...

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Source: lefigaro

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