The secretary general of the CFDT denounces the government’s desire to reform the retirement age in the fall in a context that he considers “explosive”.
The executive is notified. While Emmanuel Macron plans to reform the pension system this fall, Laurent Berger reiterated on Tuesday his opposition to the postponement of the retirement age to 65. “On retirement at 65, the CFDT will be upwind because it affects workers, the most fragile professions”said Laurent Berger at the microphone of France Inter.
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The secretary general of the CFDT considers it risky to initiate such a reform in the context of the coming months. “There is a problem of purchasing power, of power to live, of meaning in our extremely important country. Putting the question of pension reform on the table this fall, when we know that we will still have an energy cost problem, that we don’t know in what international situation we will be, it’s explosive », insisted Laurent Berger.
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During the presidential campaign, the head of the CFDT had already shown his opposition to raising the retirement age by three years from 62 to 65, one of the main measures of Emmanuel’s program in his campaign. of re-election. In the wake of the CFDT, the main unions are also hostile to it. Asked about this sensitive social file during his campaign trips, Emmanuel Macron said he was in favor of adjustments to his reform project within the framework of negotiations. The President of the Republic had not ruled out the possibility of resorting to a referendum on the subject or of opting for a decline to 64 and not 65 years.
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