Restore sound and image. Monday, June 3 in the evening, the leaders of the eight main employers’ and employees’ organizations met at the headquarters of Force Ouvrière (FO), in Paris, to try to reconnect the threads of dialogue, almost two months after having failed to conclude “a new pact for life at work”. Although the meeting went well, according to the testimony of several participants, restarting discussions still proved laborious. The quarrel of the month of April – with, at the heart of the discussions, the key theme of the universal time savings account (CETU) – left traces between representatives of workers and business leaders, but also within the employers.
“It was important that we spoke again”, summarizes Patrick Martin, the president of Medef. Monday evening’s exchanges “were frank and direct”, continues his counterpart from the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), François Asselin. An understatement to suggest that the protagonists told each other their four truths, “after the not very glorious sequence around the “new pact for life at work””. The unsuccessful outcome of the talks on April 10 “gave me a hangover for several days and I said so, Monday evening, to my management contacts”adds Frédéric Souillot, FO number one.
The meeting between social partners therefore made it possible to take stock of this setback. “But I’m not sure that everyone really draws the same lessons”confides Marylise Léon, general secretary of the CFDT. “Everyone claims to have been committed to an agreement, but not everyone made the necessary effort to make it happen”, she judges, implicitly targeting Medef and CPME. Cyril Chabanier, the president of the CFTC, thinks that “It’s collectively that we weren’t good”. An opinion shared by Mr. Asselin.
Excluded from “starting again on current bases”
The way in which the negotiations were carried out is itself called into question, particularly on the union side. “There was a piloting problem”considers the president of the CFE-CGC, François Hommeril, regretting that the employers do not display “clear mandate to negotiate” and don’t do “no concessions”. For Mr. Chabanier, it is no longer possible to have discussions “which last five months, four of which nothing happens”. He exhorts each of “say things to each other right away” : “It will save us time and energy. »
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