“64 years is also a sudden postponement of the retirement age that nothing justifies,” said Wednesday morning the number one of the CFDT, the day after a meeting at Matignon on the reform of retreats.
64 or 65 years old, same fight for the CFDT. “I say it here and I said it to the Prime Minister: if there is a postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 or 65, the CFDT will mobilize to challenge this reform“, warned Tuesday in front of the press the secretary general of the first French union, Laurent Berger, at his exit from an appointment in Matignon on the reform of the pensions.
A message that the number one of the CFDT repeated Wednesday morning on RTL. After declaring that he had the feeling that the government was leaning more towards postponing the retirement age to 64, Laurent Berger said: “64 years is also a sudden postponement of the retirement age that nothing justifies.» «64 is unacceptable for us too“, he hammered. Determined to raise the legal retirement age by two or three years on the grounds of restoring the balance of pension schemes, Élisabeth Borne temporized again on Tuesday morning by affirming that the threshold of “65 years” was not “a totem“.
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Tuesday afternoon, at the end of his appointment with the tenant of Matignon, Laurent Berger indicated that the CFDT emerged “determined not to miss a reform that will first impact the most modest“. “Contrary to what the President of the Republic said in his vows, this reform, as it is emerging, is not a reform that will make the system fairer, it is a reform that will make the system more unjust and which is not necessary today (…) However, this government is preparing to take the toughest measures of the last thirty years in a pension reform“, he argued. “The postponement of the legal age will first affect the most modest workers, the second-line workers who were hired during the Covid“, he hammered on RTL.
The cedist leader also deplored on Tuesday not having “not had many clarifications” on other points of the reform, such as the employment of seniors, long careers, hardship and the minimum contributory. “There may be measures of arduousness and on long careers, but that will not compensate for the lag at 64 years old.“, he said on RTL on Wednesday.
Towards common union mobilizations
Seeing the bilateral meetings between the Prime Minister and the social partners, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, as a “last lap» before the presentation of the reform planned for January 10, Laurent Berger said to himself already «determined“Tuesday to call”employees to mobilizein the street, in conjunction with the other unions. “We will announce joint mobilizations if it remains as it is“, Confirmed the boss of the CFDT on RTL.
Received in his wake on Tuesday by the Prime Minister, the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril also explained that the reform was not “not justified” and “unfair” for some people. If Elisabeth Borne “proposes a number of measures“, such as a “greater reinforced follow-up of the population by occupational medicine in the company from a certain age», «we are not quite on the same planet“, he explained to her.
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“The Prime Minister is in the situation of someone selling you a car without an engine, when you point out to her that there is no engine in the car she tells you “yes, but I put the leather seats“”, he imaged. At the start of the evening on Tuesday, the secretary general of FO, Frédéric Souillot, displayed the same determination, promising a mobilization “important“, while a “majority of French people are against raising the retirement age“. “That means strikes, demonstrations and then the general assemblies will decide on the renewal of the strike“, he said.
This Wednesday, several other union officials will be received at Matignon by Élisabeth Borne. Starting at 3 p.m. with Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC, then Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of MEDEF, Jean-Christophe Repon, vice-president of the Union of local businesses (U2P) and its secretary general Pierre Burban , Laurent Escure, general secretary of the UNSA, and finally Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the CGT.