The government will open a new round of consultations around the pension reform, with a view to adopting a bill “before the end of winter”, announced Thursday, September 29, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to AFP, after a meeting at the Elysée with the majority. She therefore asked the Minister of Labor “to hire next week” negotiations with employers’ organizations and trade unions, as well as with “parliamentary groups”. Consultation will happen “on the base” Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise, in particular a postponement of the legal retirement age to 65, according to information from France Télévisions.
There will therefore be no “forced passage” on this highly inflammable subject, as a day of strikes and demonstrations looms on Thursday, the first of the fall, concerning wages but also presented as a warning shot on pensions. Follow our live.
Demonstrations throughout France. At the call of the CGT, FSU and Solidaires unions and youth organizations, to demand wage increases but also concerning pension reform. At least 200 gathering places are planned throughout France for this first day of interprofessional mobilization since the start of the school year, according to Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT.
Three out of four unions have called for a strike at the SNCF. Disruptions are expected on the TER, Transilien in Ile-de-France, Intercités and Ouigo lines, but the TGV Inoui will run almost normally. On the RATP side, where only the CGT is calling for a strike, the mobilization will be moderate with disruptions in buses, trams and RER B, but not in the metro or RER A.
Union bloc on pensions. The CFDT quickly let it be known at the beginning of September that it would not participate in this day of mobilization. FO, which had associated itself with most of the demonstrations organized by the CGT in recent months, this time decided to stay away. Buthe leader of the CGT does not doubt, however, that all the unions will meet, once the executive has put its pension reform project on the table, as they have succeeded in doing on unemployment insurance.