The Minister of Labor and the Renaissance deputy defended, on Sunday, the postponement of the legal age of departure, before the union mobilization of January 19.
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After the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in the turn of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt: a few days before an inter -union mobilization against the project of reform of pension defended by the executive, the members of the Government took turns in The media, Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 January, to support the need for a postponement of the legal age of departure at 64 years.
Saturday, the government’s heading disputed criticism denouncing negative consequences of the bill, currently in the Council of State before its presentation to the Council of Ministers, for the lowest incomes. “I cannot let say that this reform would penalize modest people. It is exactly the opposite,” said Elisabeth Borne on France Inter, on the occasion of the program we do not stop the eco.
“We have a priority, it is the balance because it is the need for this system to be preserved (…) and it is also necessary to integrate into this dimension the need to not speak only of money but To talk about justice also, “abounded Olivier Dussopt, Sunday, guest of France Inter, France Télévisions and the world in Political Questions. The Minister of Labor argued that the ambition to “improve” the consideration of arduousness, the management of long careers, the level of pensions could only be carried out with a “responsible” strategy – either, according to him , maintaining the objective of limiting the system deficit.
“It must be recognized that the pension reform will ask for efforts from millions of French people,” said deputy Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance parliamentary group, in the Grand Jury LCI-RTL-Le Figaro. Asked about the mobilization against the text, with a first day of strike and demonstrations scheduled for January 19, she assured that the reform “will be adopted and will come into force”.
The member for Yvelines said he did not want to “prevent the right to strike”. “On the other hand we have a minimum service which exists in transport and which must be exercised at RATP and SNCF, and we have a minimum reception service at school and I ask the communities to be particularly mobilized” . “This right to strike is not a right of blocking”, nor “a right to hinder the French who want to go to work,” she said. “If we have to go further” to modify the law on minimum service, “we will be ready to do so,” she warned.
Philippe Martinez plans a “very strong mobilization “
On France 3, Philippe Martinez, planned a “very strong mobilization” on January 19. “It will be a very very strong mobilization. It is necessary that it is at the level of 1995, even of 2010,” said on Sunday, the secretary general of the CGT, who “does everything for” more than a million French Let in the street Thursday, at the call of the inter -union, against the reform project.
“There must also be strikes in public and private companies,” added Philippe Martinez. He clarified to trust the “number of cars ordered to go to demonstrations”, to “strike notice which have long been filed” in public services and transport, and to the many employees “who call us to ask how we do strike “.
For his part, Olivier Dussopt said that “there will be people in the street because there is a mobilization carried by many organizations”. “Union organizations have legitimacy when they call on strike or demonstration,” continued the minister., Before recalling: “It is a right. I want it to be translated into a blockage of the country Because lots of people want to continue working “.