According to the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, it is “essential” to “keep in contact” with the trade unions.
The line is not cut. After a fourth day of mobilization which took place on Saturday February 11 and brought together nearly a million people throughout France, the government took news of the trade union organizations by telephoning them. “We are in our role. The Prime Minister and I are trying to keep in touch to see what the stage of mobilization that the trade union organizations wish to prepare“, confirmed the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, Monday, February 13 on France Info, while the inter-union said it wanted to put “France at a standstillon March 7 in the event of non-withdrawal of the bill.
“The main thing is to keep in touch“, Completed the member of the government, in the front line on the defense of the pension reform. “It was also recalled that the text follows numerous consultations with them“, he added. Before mentioning contactspublic” and others “more informal“. “The Prime Minister is free to make the calls she wants, in the order she wants“, also estimated the minister, while the boss of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, seems to have been called after his counterparts from the CFDT and Force Ouvrière.
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Sunday evening, the secretary general of FO, Frédéric Souillot, thus indicated that he had spoken to Elisabeth Borne on the phone in the last 48 hours. For his part, Philippe Martinez spoke on Monday morning on BFMTV / RMC of a “courtesy call“. “I think that since we often repeated with my counterparts that we had no news from the government, she must have said to herself, perhaps, that I should call them to avoid giving the impression that we were leaving aside the trade unions“, he formulated.
The trade unionist spoke of a call “in pure form“, during which he would have”reminded” that “the government and the president do not take the measure of what is happening in the country“. “I think she is aware of the broad public opposition to this reform“, he completed, about Élisabeth Borne.
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