The CFDT will be mobilized next January and February to prevent the legal retirement age from being postponed beyond 62 years.
Slowly but surely, the subject of pensions is returning to the center of public debate. The government is stepping up its speeches to defend the main lines of the reform it wants to see adopted next summer. To the chagrin of the unions, which show their teeth. “Be careful not to create in January a big social conflict»threatens Laurent Berger, questioned Monday morning on France 2. The secretary general of the CFDT urges the government to “listen to the world of work“, while the reform project must be detailed on December 15th.
The boss of the first trade union in France bluntly warns that there is “no negotiation possibleon his refusal to see the legal retirement age postponed to 65, as planned by the government. The CFDT will meet once the details of the reform project are known, in mid-December, and will decide at that time on the terms of its opposition, said Laurent Berger. From this evening, however, an inter-union meeting will be held on the question of pension reform, in which the CFDT will participate alongside the CGT, FO, the CFE-CGC, the CFTC, the Unsa, Solidaires and the FSU. On Friday, the secretary general of Unsa-Ferroviaires entrusted the Figaro that everything will be doneto prevent the next pension reform from passing”.
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Laurent Berger does not deviate from his line: “the pension scheme is in balance and no withdrawal from the pension scheme is announced”, according to him. It calls into question the age measure defended by the presidential majority. “They try to tax the workers“, he accuses. In other words, the pension reform would serve less to finance a system in deficit than to free up new public funds. “There is tax for thatinsists Laurent Berger, pointing to the reduction of production taxes. On the government side, it is maintained that no tax increase will hit the French in the wallet.
The CFDT makes the employment of seniors a priority and regrets the ambitions at a discount on the part of the executive. In an interview at ParisianÉlisabeth Borne declared that the government wanted the establishment of an index on the employment of seniors to “hold companies accountable“. “The constraint (on the departure age) for workers and the incentive for companies“, laments Laurent Berger, who says to himself “concerned about the situation of workers“. Despite these remonstrances, Laurent Berger asserts that he would not take to the streets in December before the reform is on track. “Consultations are still ongoing“, he points out. He intends to take advantage of this to make himself heard.
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