The CGT refuses a “proposal” of a multilateral meeting with Emmanuel Macron without announcements on pensions or salaries

There is “no use” to a multilateral meeting between Emmanuel Macron and the trade unions without announcements on pensions or salaries, said the secretary general of the CGT Sophie Binet, Wednesday, May 17.

After an interview at Matignon with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the number 1 of the union declared to have refused a “proposal” to have a multilateral with the President of the Republic or with the Prime Minister on the social calendar, not seeing “not the use if there were no concrete announcements on the question of the withdrawal of the pension reform or the increase in wages”.

“I’m mad”

Last to meet the Prime Minister on Wednesday, Sophie Binet had very harsh words after a meeting of almost two hours with Elisabeth Borne. “I’m mad”after having “noted that on almost all subjects, it was an end of inadmissibility, with a policy aligned with the interest and the will of the employer”, said the trade unionist. “I could not give an end of inadmissibility since I was listening to the subjects” put on the table by the unions, retorted the Prime Minister, who came to say a few words to the press after discussions which she described as “dense, long”.

Elisabeth Borne, who will receive the employers’ organizations next Monday and Tuesday, once again said she was ready to “let the social dialogue take place fully”, and expressed the wish that a meeting could soon be organized “multilateral” with employers and unions.