Pointing to a “series of crises,” Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday spoke of the “end of abundance” and declared that “our regime of freedom” had “a cost that may require sacrifices.”
“I think it is very out of place. When we talk about making sacrifices, when we talk about abundance, I think of the millions of unemployed, the millions of precarious people, especially women, the smicards […]. This message is unconventional,” the general secretary of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, reacted on BFMTV.
“The cost has arrived”
“For millions of citizens of this country, the cost has already arrived,” said the head of the CGT, for whom “the sacrifices are already there.” “Are we asking for new sacrifices? He is going to ask for them. We are going to oppose them,” he said, assuring that the CGT had “made proposals,” in particular on salaries. There was “not once the word ‘salary’ in the law of purchasing power,” lamented Philippe Martínez.
The union leader has promised new demonstrations for the start of the school year. “There have never been so many wage strikes as at the last moment,” he stressed.
Source: BFM TV
