The French unions who oppose the pension reform and will march for the eleventh time in Paris met this Wednesday with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, at the meeting shorter than ever. Businessmen and politicians also attended the dialogue meetings while President Emmanuel Macron visited China.
For the first time, one of the leaders of the union was a woman. Sophie Binet, of the CGT, replaced Philippe Martinez and was joined by Laurent Berger, of the CFDT, the first French trade union.
“We together ask that the age of 64 is not applied,” said Laurent Berger (CFDT), who hasn’t spoken since Francois Hollande with Emmanuel Macron.
“We ask for the withdrawal of the reform and the response (from the premier) it is not“, he reported, not surprisingly, after the meeting in Matignon.
“We are going through a serious democratic crisis” but “we appeal to the wisdom of the Constitutional Council, which we respect and do not exert pressure”, said Laurent Berger. “I ask as many French people as possible to join the processions all over France tomorrow (for this Thursday) in peace, without violence”concluded Laurent Berger.
Thursday March
Government needs bergers. He is a moderate trade unionist, social democrat, persuasive and respected from the grass roots of him. All ministers, especially the labor minister and the prime minister, are seeking a reconciliation between President Macron and Berger. It will not be easy. Leads negotiations and approves mobilisations.
THE this Thursday’s march will be enormous, a test of strength and on the whole national territory, with severe transport problems.
The Constitutional Council, which serves as the supreme court in France and is chaired by former socialist prime minister Laurent Fabius, is due to rule on April 14 and can declare the reform completely or partially illegal.
“A Useless Encounter”
Sophie Binet, philosopher and new general secretary of the CGT, called it a “useless meeting” and a “obtuse and disconnected” government.
“We cannot move forward until pension reform is rolled back,” he said. You added that the Intersindacale will be “united to the end”.
Laurent Berger, on behalf of the Inter-union, “concluded the meeting”.
“Neither decline, nor weakening, neither of the Intersindical nor of the mobilization”, was the message that Frédéric Souillot, of the Force Ouvrière, when it was his turn to speak in Elisabeth Borne’s office.
“We concluded this meeting when the Prime Minister explained it to us I would not withdraw this reform” said the leader of Fuerza Obrera. Sophie Binet (CGT) also said that the meeting was interrupted after 55 minutes, on the initiative of Laurent Berger for the Intersindical.
“We reiterate that your reform was as unjust as it was brutal,” said Cyril Chabanier (CFTC) after meeting Elisabeth Borne. “We ask once again for the sheer withdrawal of this text” e “We’re not going back to the negotiating table” about the age of the postponement, continued ..
Eight unions unite in inter-union movement against pension reform. Their representatives, received by Elisabeth Borne, were Sophie Binet, Berger, Frederic Souillot (FO), Francois Hommeril (CFE-CGC), Cyril Chabanier (CFTC), Laurent Escure (National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions – UNSA), Benoit Teste ( FSU ), Murielle Guilbert and Simon Duteil (Solidarity Union).
born, disagree
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne evoked “a respectful exchange, in which everyone was able to listen and express themselves” with the Intersindicale.
“I heard your disagreement about raising the age” and “our disagreements about the age we were not allowed to argueShared concerns about “long careers, difficulties, burnout, ’employment by the elderly’. “I do not intend to go ahead without the social partners. I told them my willingness and that of my government “to address all these issues”, he concluded.
The head of government was surrounded by Olivier Dussopt and Stanislas Guerini, and showed a big smile.
Socialist leader Olivier Faure (PS) and environmentalist Marine Tondelier (EELV) also visited Matignon on Tuesday and reiterated their call for the reform to be withdrawn.
The leader of rebel France, Jean Luc Mélenchon, who did not accept the Matignon meeting, broadcast via Twitter, his “full support for Intersindacale who doesn’t give up”
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, believes that the government “it is pushing the country into crisis. It does not respect the unions, nor the Parliament, nor the French,” he wrote on Twitter, calling for more people to mobilize across the country on Thursday. The blockades have already begun and there is a shortage of petrol and diesel.
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Source: Clarin
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