the CFDT has “always” sought the “compromise”, answers Laurent Berger to Emmanuel Macron

“We have always demonstrated responsibility and the search for compromise”, responds the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, to Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday March 22 on France Inter. In an interview with TF1 and France 2, at midday, the President of the Republic regretted “that no union force has proposed a compromise”particularly targeting the CFDT. “It’s a lie”insists the trade unionist.

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“The CFDT not only proposed other possible sources of financing once we understood that the President of the Republic and the government wanted to go on a postponement of the age”he says, and “before that, we had proposed to start again on a universal pension system which would be perhaps a little simpler than what had been sketched out in 2019”.

“It is not the CFDT which has changed its mind and which has not sought a compromise. It is, I believe, the government and, beyond the government, the President of the Republic.”

Laurent Berger, general secretary of the CFDT

on France Inter

“While there is a conflagration, in a way, in any case too much violence for our taste, which has been expressed in recent days, we were expecting appeasement, we were expecting a desire to get out of this zone. of conflict”, laments Laurent Berger. Gold, “what is returned to us is ‘you did not understand, it is ‘you are not responsible’ or ‘you have never made any proposals'”.

“I believe that tomorrow, there must be people in the streets to make it understood that in a very peaceful, very responsible way, the workers are in disagreement with the President of the Republic”concludes the trade unionist.