Yves Veyrier, Secretary General of Force Ouvrière, hopes that the main power plants will oppose one voice to retirement at 65 years.
All unions are retiring at 65, but will they succeed in expressing their hostility in one voice? The idea of a common discourse begins, in any case, to emerge. During the demonstration of the 1 er -Mai in Paris, Yves Veyrier, the secretary general of FO, pleaded, with ardor, in favor of a collective approach against the will of Emmanuel Macron to push back the age of opening rights to a pension. “I hope that our five confederations will be able to say it clearly and clearly,” he said, referring to his power station and the other four who are representative at the interprofessional level (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT).
In mid-October 2020, those responsible for these organizations had co-edited a text they had sent to Prime Minister, Jean Castex, with a copy to the Head of State. The signatories of this letter then asked that the reform establishing a universal pension system, suspended at the time because of the COVVI-19 epidemic, was not given to the agenda by the end of the legislature. As this project had finally been abandoned, the boss of FO thinks that the initiative of the unions had had an influence on the decision of the executive.
recourse to “right to demonstrate”
“We said that we were all opposed to the decline in the legal retirement age, argued Mr. Veyrier, Sunday 1 er May, addressing journalists . Now, it has to materialize. “And to emphasize that” it would mark (…) the spirits “. He even went so far as to mention the hypothesis of an recourse to “the right to demonstrate, the right to strike if necessary”. Before clarifying: “I hope that we will not need to get there.” The day after the second round of the presidential election, the union leader had already written to his counterparts to suggest “examine possibilities of common actions “, as revealed by the AEF news agency.
“We can be five, but not on the bases [of this letter],” says Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT, arguing that it is the “recovery” of a declaration Published on March 31 by the instances of FO. For his part, Philippe Martinez, the number one of the CGT, explains that his Confederation “responded favorably to the idea of a meeting of the five unions”. It will follow, if it takes place, at another time of exchange, which took place “before the first round of the presidential election”, he explains.
François Manril, the president of the CFE-CGC, is also ready. He even maintains that we will “do everything to have an expression of five on retirement at 65”. On the other hand, the leader of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier, is more prudent. He approves the idea of a meeting, while signaling the existence of “real differences” between employee organizations about pensions, so that the principle of a common position is “not obvious”.
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