The National Assembly resumes, this Monday afternoon, the tumultuous examination of the pension reform, under pressure from the street and the unions, who are agitating the threat of a “France at a standstill” on March 7.
Each blames the other. In the majority, we do not want to take all the responsibility. ” The unions asked us for dialogue, we gave them a lot exclaims a Renaissance deputy. This is not really the point of view of the unions. Even the CFDT, described as reformist and more open to negotiation with the government, does not want to hear about the 64-year-olds.
An attitude denounced by the majority and judged “ hypocritical by some. To hear a Macronist senator, Laurent Berger, the leader of the CFDT, said: “ I want more about the arduousness, I want more about the employment of seniors, I want more about long careers… and 64 years, I don’t want it. We knew he was going to take whatever suited him, but without saying a word. »
This is the refrain that we hear in the majority: the unions do not want to publicly recognize that there are advances in the text. And that upsets Elisabeth Borne. A member of the government confides that the Prime Minister has ” hard not to have Laurent Berger on board “.
” The unions will let go, the CFDT will let go »
It is unlikely that the dialogue can resume For now. The government’s strategy, under the leadership of Emmanuel Macron, is to play the political card. Union time is over. Now is the time for demonstrations and parliamentary debate. The outstretched hand to the Republicans on the issue of long careers is proof of this: “ It’s normal that we discuss with those who will help us pass the law “, Asserts a framework of the majority when asked if it is the right method to speak only to a party while the French descend as many in the street.
The government’s objective is therefore to maintain and have the reform adopted, because then a minister wants to believe that ” the unions will let go, the CFDT will let go “. And, he adds, there will be an after with the CFDT “. ” Act 1 is the retreats, Act 2 what happens throughout life “, with in particular a bill on full employment in preparation, also advances a deputy as a promise to resume the dialogue.
An ideal scenario, but which is not that of the unions who want to be heard now and are increasing the pressure on the government.