“The system is not bankrupt, the urgency is not the pension reform”, assured the socialist president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, the day after the examination in committee of the very controversial project. . “We have other emergencies, the French men and women no longer have the power to live because there is very high inflation. We need a substantive policy on the issue of inflation, a new European policy on the definition of energy costs, you have to take the issues to the bottom”, she added to the microphone of Europe 1.
A “deeply unjust” reform
On Tuesday, several amendments were accepted by the senators, in particular in favor of mothers and the employment of seniors. The first aims to grant a bonus to mothers who have a full career. The second concerns a new CDI formula, exempt from family contributions, which would facilitate the hiring of unemployed over 60s.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 people concerned by the minimum pension
Another change, in a letter from the Ministry of Labor addressed to MP Jérôme Guedj, MP for Essonne PS-Nupes, the number of people whose minimum pension will be increased to 85% of the minimum wage, i.e. 1,200 euros this year, will no longer concern only 10,000 to 20,000 people against the 40,000 beneficiaries announced a few weeks ago.
According to Carole Delga, “there was a desire for manipulation” on the part of the government. “Fortunately, parliamentary work has made it possible to highlight this manipulation”, she added before defining this reform as “unjustified and unjust”. “We can see that no one is convinced, three quarters of the French are against the pension reform. We are going to hit more on those who have less, we are with Macronism in all its splendor!”, she said. exclaimed.
The date of the next mobilization day, March 7, promises to be very popular. All of the SNCF unions are calling for a renewable strike from this date.