It is a unanimous tolert of trade union organizations that hosted the proposal of the President-Candidate, Emmanuel Macron, to postpone from 62 to 65 years the legal age of retirement.
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Thanks to Emmanuel Macron, the unions speak with one voice, without the need to coordinate. They are resolutely opposed to the President-Candidate’s willingness to repel the legal age of retirement from 62 to 65 years. All their displeases them in this proposal, which became official, Thursday, March 10, and that the tenant of the Elysee will implement if it is re-elected for a second term: the method for announcing it, the arguments that justify it and its consequences For many workers.
Laurent Berger has had a golden opportunity to publicly manifest his disapproval. The CFDT, of which it is the Secretary General, received, Thursday, at its Paris headquarters, contenders to the Supreme Judiciary (or their representatives) for auditioning on social dialogue, the purchasing power, the ecological transition, etc. During this exercise, Richard Ferrand spoke of the Head of State. The President of the National Assembly, close to the President and already very involved in the campaign in 2017, confirmed the idea of taking up three years the age of opening of rights.
At the end of the meeting, Mr. Berger spoke to the journalists to say that he found this “unfair” and “brutal” project. “It penalizes those who started working early, those who have a painful job, those who have trouble keeping up in employment at an advanced age,” he said, explaining that many insured persons are Unemployment or disability when claiming the payment of their pension. Individuals in this situation may stay there even longer if they have to wait up to 65 to retire. On the other hand, Berger added, women and men who started their professional lives late, with “more sustainable” and “better valued” activities, will be little affected by the reform – “or not at all”: “It’s contesters’ solidarity.”
“Dogmatic and Simplistic measurement”
Other union officials, solicited by Le Monde, are exactly on the same line. Mr. Macron’s approach “seems to me displaced and in contradiction with his assertion to want to listen to citizens,” says Philippe Martinez, pointing out that all employees organizations are hostile to the extent. The number one of the CGT shows itself more than perplexed against the promises made Thursday by the close guard of the Head of State to maintain exceptions for people who have held physically experiencing positions: at the beginning of the legislature, recalls He, the government had strongly diminished a device – the prevention account of the hardness – which makes it possible to stop his career before 62 years.
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