The first French union center will participate in consultations with the government which must start, without being ready for concessions concerning the age of retirement.
Le Monde with AFP
Retirement at 65, “it’s Niet”. The CFDT will participate in consultations with the government about pensions, but “the dialogue will have to be open and loyal,” said the boss of the first French union, Laurent Berger.
“It is not for the CFDT to boycott the consultations”, underlines the secretary general of the organization in an interview with newspaper Sunday , before a week punctuated by an inter -union meeting on Monday and another with the Minister of Labor a few days later. “There are many subjects on which we have proposals such as the minimum contributory, the arduousness, the use of seniors … But the 65 years, we will fight them,” he added.
Porter the retirement age, “it’s Niet”, insisted Laurent Berger. “Today, the age factor has no longer made sense: employees go on average at 63.1 years. Rack at 65 years is a brutal measure” and “there is no question of discussing with a Pistol on the temple “. For him, it is necessary to stop “taking the French for idiots. The risk of budgetary imbalance linked to the baby boom has been mastered”.
opposite to a “force passage”
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced Thursday that a consultation on pension reform would start the following week with the social partners, with a view to a bill which will have to be adopted “before the end of the ‘winter “. A tightened calendar, but all the same less than the hypothesis of an amendment to the social security budget, which had caused a lifting of unions.
This new consultation on pensions has been favorably welcomed by unions, unanimously opposed to a “force passage” this fall. However, they have specified to wait now that the executive demonstrates “loyalty”.
The CFDT will also continue to participate in the National Refoundation Council (CNR), trained on the initiative of Emmanuel Macron, said Mr. Berger. And “like all other unions”, the CFDT will not take part in the march against life dear on October 16, organized by Insoumise France (LFI), the Socialist Party (PS), Europe Ecology-les Verts (EELV) , and other organizations. “We must not confuse political approach and union action”, according to the head of the CFDT.