The Constitutional Council validates Friday, April 14 most of the pension reform. The inter-union calls on Emmanuel Macron to “find wisdom” and “not to enact this law.
While the Constitutional Council validated, Friday, April 14, the essentials of the pension reform, in particular the postponement of the legal age to 64, the intersyndicale “solemnly request” to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron of “not enacting the law”, as she wrote in a press release. She also calls for “a day of exceptional and popular mobilization against pension reform and for social justice”, next May 1. Until then, the trade unions have decided “not to accept meetings with the executive”. Finally, the intersyndicale calls on the Constitutional Council to validate the second request for a shared initiative referendum (RIP) in order to “breaking the impasse through democratic consultation”.
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“You cannot govern a country against its people”, declares Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT
“We call on the President of the Republic to find wisdom, to understand what is happening in the country and not to promulgate this law”, declares Sophie Binet, secretary general of the CGT, Friday, April 14, during a rally in front of the town hall of Paris. The inter-union instead calls on the government to redo the law before parliament, under article 10 of the Constitution. According to Sophie Binet, “the law comes out even more unbalanced and violent” than before the Council’s decision since social compensation measures, deemed insufficient by the inter-union, such as the senior index were censored.
“All the trade unions are meeting all French men and women on May 1 for a popular tidal wave”says Sophie Binet.
“If the President of the Republic promulgates this law, no trade union organization will meet either the President of the Republic or any member of the government to talk about anything other than the withdrawal of this pension reform.”
Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT
The general secretary of the CGT concluded: “You cannot govern a country against its people. Emmanuel Macron cannot continue to lead the country if he does not withdraw this reform.”
“Wisdom requires not to promulgate the law”, according to Laurent Berger
On Twitter, the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger quotes the press release from the intersyndicale and launches: “To get out of the social crisis, wisdom requires not to promulgate the law.
To get out of the social crisis, wisdom dictates not to promulgate the law #64yrsIsNo pic.twitter.com/5X9RiFdwQW
— Laurent Berger (@CfdtBerger) April 14, 2023
While Emmanuel Macron offers to receive the unions on Tuesday, Laurent Berger declines the invitation. Guest of the 20 hours of TF1, the leader of the CFDT ensures: “we won’t go” to the meeting.
“Trust is broken” with the government for Michel Beaugas, confederal secretary FO
“This will leave traces in the social dialogue with the government”, laments on franceinfo Michel Beaugas, confederal secretary of Force Ouvrière in charge of pensions. According to him, “trust is broken whether it is with the Minister of Labour”or with “the prime minister”. For Michel Beaugas : “The Minister of Labor only received the trade unions once and then he let his cabinet do its thing” And “When we wanted to meet the President of the Republic we couldn’t.” According to confederal secretary of Force Ouvrière in charge of pensions, “The government had taken things backwards from the start” because it was necessary “first talk about the employment of seniors, working conditions and hardship”, before thinking about reforming pensions.