Barthélémy Philippe / Photo credit: MARTIN NODA / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
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8:09 a.m., May 31, 2023
Two days after the inter-union mobilization of June 6, the bill to repeal the pension reform, which emanates from the Liot group must be examined by the National Assembly. Problem: the majority is ready to use all legislative and constitutional levers to prevent the deputies from voting for it. Several scenarios worry the unions.
It is the last hope of the inter-union, which summoned the press on Tuesday to beat the recall for the mobilization of June 6. Two days later, the bill to repeal the pension reform, which emanates from the Liot group, must be examined by the National Assembly. Problem: the government and the majority are ready to use all legislative and constitutional levers to prevent the deputies from voting for it.
Without a vote in favor of the repeal, the worst scenario, the inter-union would lose all hope of bringing down the reform. It is however the one which takes shape, then the trade-union leaders agitate the threat of a hypothetical social explosion, if the vote is prevented. “We saw what the 49-3 gave. Imagine a refusal to vote in the Assembly”, launches Thomas Vacheron, member of the confederal office of the CGT.
Several possible options
For her part, the number two of the CFDT Marylise Léon prefers not to consider it for the moment: “Politics fiction is not my cup of tea. What I can say for the moment is that if the government does everything to prevent the examination of the text, it would be extremely serious, it would be extremely worrying for our democracy”, she explains. At this stage, the intersyndicale has not defined a strategy to respond to a lack of vote.
Several options are possible: a press release, a press conference before the Assembly, or even a new day of mobilization. Be that as it may, the unions will find it very difficult to sustain the movement against the pension reform, several weeks after the last major mobilization.