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Emmanuel Macron is going this Wednesday to Muttersholtz, a small Alsatian town of 2,000 inhabitants. If the unions shunned the first meeting at the Elysée post-promulgation of the postponement of the legal age of departure, the President intends to use the “pact of life at work” to bring them back to his table.
After the pension reformEmmanuel Macron has a new hobbyhorse: “the pact of life at work”. The Head of State will also make a trip this Wednesday afternoon on this theme in the Bas-Rhin, in Muttersholtz. If the unions shunned the first meeting at the Elysée post-promulgation of the postponement of the legal age of departure, the President intends to use this pact to bring them back to his table.
The Head of State needs trade unions
Emmanuel Macron needs the unions to move forward. What could be better than taking up the provisions of the pension reform rejected by the Constitutional Council to try to appease them. This is exactly what the Head of State is doing with this work life pact.
Emmanuel Macron wants to invite the unions to return to the negotiating table
On the table for future negotiations: the employment of seniors with tools such as the senior CDI or the senior index, but also measures intended to answer the questions of the Chairman during his speech: “How to make a better living from one’s work, how to better living at work, how to better prepare for career endings and retraining?”
Beyond the nod to the collective of the “Pact of the power to live” of which the CFDT is a part, Emmanuel Macron indirectly forces the unions to renew the dialogue with him. “These are subjects that we carry all the time, we are stuck, we have no other choice but to go there”, admits an official of a reformist union.