While the Joint Joint Committee (CMP) is meeting this Wednesday at the National Assembly to find a consensus on pension reform, Laurent Berger has asked parliamentarians not to vote for this law. The secretary general of the CFDT notably warned the government against using 49.3.
The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger sent a message to parliamentarians on Wednesday on pension reform to tell them “do not vote for this law”, on the eve of the probable parliamentary epilogue for the government project. “I tell parliamentarians do not vote for this law, it is disconnected from the concrete reality of work,” he said before the start of the Paris demonstration for the eighth day of mobilization.
A participation “without doubt” below March 7
According to the boss of the first French union, the participation “will be higher” than the previous day of action on Saturday, but “probably” below the record reached on March 7 (1.28 million demonstrators according to the authorities, more than 3 million according to the unions). A finding shared by his CGT counterpart, Philippe Martinez, who also said that “there are more people in the street than on Saturday”. He warned that for his organization, the challenge “will not stop” if the reform is adopted Thursday, with or without recourse to 49.3.
A scenario that would be “the worst of the worst” according to him, but also for Laurent Berger who warned the government against a forced passage, which would cause “tremendous anger”. The number one of Force Ouvrière, Frédéric Souillot, even considered that the executive took “the risk of an explosion” by “sweeping out of hand” the social movement against its reform. This will continue in the coming days “especially among the garbage collectors” engaged in a renewable strike which “is seen and felt”, he underlined.