Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne receives representatives of employers on Monday 22 May. Meetings which follow a series of meetings with the unions to discuss wages, working conditions or even employee representation. Union representatives again insisted on reminding the government of their opposition to the pension reform. This battle ” will never stop “, insists this Sunday Laurent Berger, of the CFDT, while the appeals against this reform are soon coming to an end.
The fight for pensions will he stop on June 8, after the examination in the National Assembly of a bill which seeks to repeal the reform? To this question posed by the Sunday newspaper, Laurent Berger clearly answers no and calls on the government not to try to avoid examining the text. But immediately, he qualifies: It is certain that we are not going to hold repeated demonstrations” for a goal “difficult to achieve. »
Laurent Berger is preparing to leave the leadership of the reformist union, after ten years in office. He leaves in the wake of this mobilization against the pension reform, marked by the unity of the unions, but for the moment also by a failure to prevent the postponement of the legal retirement age.
The union unity displayed for months could crumble once the June 8 deadline has passed. The CGT, a protest union, refuses a new meeting with the government as long as there are no concrete announcements on pensions or salaries. The leader of the CFDT has already accepted new discussions. ” If we can make common demands, that’s fine. Otherwise, it is (the sign of) the plurality of the trade union movement he concludes.
The unions are to meet on May 30 to define common demands. They also called for a new demonstration against the pension reform on June 6.