relieved to be associated with “consultations” on pension reform, employee organizations remain strongly opposed to a postponement of legal age to 65 years.
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The tension falls, but for how long? By announcing, Thursday, September 29, a cycle of “consultations” on pension reform, Elisabeth Borne brought back some serenity in the exchanges between the executive and the unions. But the Prime Minister’s dialogue offer is welcomed with circumspection by most employee organizations. Their questions are all the stronger since they unanimously denounce one of the cardinal points of the project: the postponement to 65 years of the age of rights to a pension, which must be put in place on the horizon 2031.
In principle, negotiations will begin “next week”, the goal being to draw a “before Christmas”, almost three months of talks. “We favor the registration of this reform in a bill which should be voted before the end of winter,” said M me terminal. The hypothesis of an appeal to amendments, adopted this fall in the social security budget for 2023, seems to be dismissed. The unions saw it as a force passage, to which they were ready to oppose by inviting their activists and the population to descend into the street.
The fact that the delay power in place is therefore rather well received. “We note that there is an inflection on the method we claim,” says Yvan Ricordeau, national secretary of the CFDT. “This is a good thing,” reacted Laurent Escure, the secretary general of the UNSA, in a press release. The CFDT wants to grasp the hand stretched by M me terminal “to put the subjects on the table in the right order”: arduousness, end of career, long career, use of seniors.
“It’s not serious”
But the deadlines set for consultation are criticized. “Three months, it seems short,” judges Cyril Chabanier, the president of the CFTC. “It is not serious,” continues Michel Beaugas, Confederate Secretary of FO. Above all, he adds, “the corollary of discussions cannot be a legal retirement age pushed back to 65 years”. “We do not want to go negotiate the extension of [this parameter]”, hammered Philippe Martinez, the number one of the CGT, during the demonstration organized on Thursday in Paris, at the call of its power plant, of the Fsu and solidarity. François Manril, the president of the CFE-CGC, is even harder, doubting the sincerity of his interlocutors at the highest peak of the State. “The government says:” See, I do consultation. “But it’s archibidon. In this case, communication and appearances take precedence over the bottom,” he regrets.
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