During his congress which ended on Friday, the organization of Laurent Berger posed as a principle not only the refusal of the postponement of the legal retirement age, but also his opposition to a possible hardening of The “Touraine law”, which would result in an increase in the contribution duration to be eligible for the full rate.
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On the question of pensions, Laurent Berger had already been very firm: there is no question of postponing the legal age of departure to 65, as promised Emmanuel Macron. But the activists of the CFDT, gathered in Congress in Lyon from Monday 13 to Friday, June 17, asked their secretary general to build their speech, even if it means jostling it a little. This episode shows, once again, how ultra -sensitive the subject is, including within the Cédétiste central, which nevertheless endowed reforms – especially in 2003 – synonymous with increased efforts to perceive his pension. The fact that the first union of France still increases the tone is not good news for the government, if it must implement the will of the President of the Republic to “work for a long time” the population.
The debate within the CFDT has focused on a sentence of the “general resolution” project – the document which, once rewritten and approved by the delegates, serves as a roadmap for the organization. The few incriminated words reaffirmed that the CFDT admits an increase in the duration of contribution to respond to the increase in life expectancy. In the cededist “house”, it has been a constant line for years. It had also led the Confederation to accept the Touraine law of January 2014, which gradually brings to 172 quarters the affiliation time required to receive a full -rate pension.
But the formulation chosen in the resolution was deemed ambiguous by the Syndic Syndicate of the Somme. She “could feed an unfair reform”, said on Thursday, her secretary general, Arnaud Espel, whose intervention was vigorously applauded by the audience, gathered in the vast amphitheater of the International City of Lyon. “Is it good for us and, above all, is it the time to come back to the parameters?”, He wondered, expressing an apprehension shared by other components of the power plant.
Frédéric Sève, the national secretary in charge of the file, tried to dispel the fears by explaining that the resolution, in his initial version, only repeated a doctrine that “we (…) hammered for a long time”. “We don’t need to change it to counter government projects, quite the contrary,” he added. The day before, Mr. Berger had been even more direct: “We do not have (…) the intention to validate an extension of the duration of contribution beyond what is provided for by Touraine law.” And Apostropher the room: “My friends, no unnecessary alert, no bad debates between us, no fearless fear.”
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