A bitter Saturday morning for the oppositions and the unions. Only a few hours after the decision of the Constitutional Council, which validated the essential of the text of the highly contested pension reform, the Head of State officially promulgated the law. The inter-union did not wait to decide on a new day of mobilization, which will take place on Monday, May 1, National Labor Day. At the microphone of Europe 1, Marylise Léon denounces “the dangers of this hasty promulgation”.
Next mobilization set for May 1
“The inter-union wanted to calm things down, to be able to continue the dialogue with in particular the possibility of putting the law back for discussion in Parliament. But the president decided otherwise. It is very regrettable but that does not mean as long as the game is over”, she defends. The Deputy Secretary General of the CFDT notably evokes in this sense the possibility of a referendum of shared initiative, which must still be examined by the Constitutional Council.
But it is especially on May 1 that the unions intend to come back in force. “It’s two more years for all those who already couldn’t reach the end of their career; because they’re tired, because the working conditions are difficult. So I tell them see you on the 1st May 2023 to have a Labor Day in the image of these three months of mobilization”, declares Marylise Léon.
Censored social measures
Another point of regret for the deputy secretary of the CFDT: the censorship of the social measures present in the text. These, which concerned seniors or even hardship, were proposed to offset the harshness of the postponement of the retirement age. “All of this has been censored. So we are really in a reform of public finances and whose bill is addressed to the only worker by saying ‘you will work two more years and there you go, move around, there is nothing to see'” , she curses.
The CFDT, together with the seven other trade unions, wishes in the future to “talk about work and not retirement” without complying with “a political agenda” but the “retirement sequence” is for the moment far from over. .