The Prime Minister began yesterday, Tuesday January 3, a final series of consultations with the social partners on the pension reform, which she will present on January 10. She did not convince her first interlocutors.
An hour and a half interview for not much Laurent Berger came out no more convinced than he was when he entered. “ The day when arbitrations will be made by the Prime Minister, if there is a postponement of the legal retirement age – which is announced at 64 or 65 – the CFDT will do what it has said from the start , that is to say that we will oppose this reform, in particular by calling on employees to mobilize! »
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Unions decidedly reassured by this reform despite the assurances given yesterday morning on the France Info channel by Elisabeth Borne, such as the guarantee of a full rate departure at 67 or the contribution period blocked at 43.
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Form but not substance for the president of the executives’ union, CFE-CGC, François Hommeril. ” The Prime Minister is somewhat in the situation of someone who sells you a car without an engine.. When you point out to her that there is no engine, she replies: yes, but I put leather seats… There is unanimity on a mobilization, whatever its nature and we will be in…”
Same determination on the side of FO whose boss was received at the end of the afternoon. “If there is a decline in the starting age, there is mobilization” and she will be “ important », assured Frédéric Souillot.
In the middle of these consultations, the head of government went to the Elysee Palace to probably take stock of the subject with Emmanuel Macron, according to his diary published by Matignon, specifies Agence France presse.
The CGT received this Wednesday
And there is little chance that the discussions will go better this Wednesday. The Prime Minister will end her consultations with the powerful secretary general of the CGT, who has already started to warm up her troops for a large-scale mobilization.
The postponement of the presentation of the text from December 15 to January 10 allowed Elisabeth Borne to hear again, before Christmas, the political groups then, this beginning of the week, the social partners, before the passage in the Council of Ministers on 23 January. But the presidential project, to which President Macron reaffirmed his attachment during his vows, is coming up against opposition from all the unions and most political groups.
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