The reaction was not long in coming. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, had barely finished her speech presenting the pension reform on Tuesday, January 10, when Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT, wrote on Twitter : “Mobilization is inevitable. »
That said, the one who is also co-secretary general of the CGT federation covering the state civil service was hardly surprised by the announcements. Last week, after being received by the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, Stanislas Guerini, Mme Verzeletti did not hide his disappointment. The head of the first union of public officials had deplored a “tremendous regression”regretting the “postponement of retirement regardless of the arduous nature of the work” and D’“tiny compensation”.
At the UNSA Public Service, the fourth organization, the disappointment is the same. Luc Farré, its secretary general, deplores a reform “brutal and unjust”. The measures, he believes, “will first impact those who started working early, with difficult working conditions, often working in the least paid, most arduous jobs, and who have a lower life expectancy. »
In a joint press release published on Wednesday January 11, the representatives of the public service – CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT, FA, FO, FSU, Solidaires, UNSA – “Demand the government withdraw from its project”calling on agents to participate “massively” on the day of strikes on January 19.
The reform, in fact, does not spare the civil service. It is founded, recalled Mr. Guerini on Tuesday, “on a clear principle of fairness”which implies ” the symmetry “ between regimes. “We are asking public officials to also work a little longersaid the Minister, this is the very meaning of the contributive solidarity of all working people. »
The calculation of pensions remains specific
Civil servants will therefore also increase from 62 to 64 as the legal retirement age. And they will be, like the others, affected by the acceleration of the “Touraine reform”, that is to say the gradual increase in the contribution period necessary to receive a full pension. Admittedly, as in the private sector, it will now be possible to work until the age of 70 for those who wish to do so; but also to benefit from the “progressive retirement” system, which allows you to combine part of your pension with part-time work.
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