The Prime Minister will receive the leaders of the five main trade union organizations on Tuesday and Wednesday for face-to-face meetings.
“I think we’re all going to talk about pension reform,” explains Monday, May 15 on franceinfo Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC, the French Confederation of Christian Workers. The five representative unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC) will be received Tuesday and Wednesday by Elisabeth Borne as part of bilateral meetings, pending the 14th day of demonstrations against the pension reform which they demand the withdrawal.
“We reached an inter-union agreement” and it’s “the first subject we are going to address to say that we are not turning the page. The fact of coming to Matignon to meet the Prime Minister and wanting to address other subjects, such as that of purchasing power which is also the concern of our fellow citizens, does not mean that we are abandoning the fight on pension reform“, insists the president of the CFTC.
Cyril Chabanier thinks that the unions are “in a position of strength because the government and the President of the Republic have been deaf to our demands on pensions will not be able to say no to everything”.
“I believe this is the right time to negotiate new rights and benefits for employees.”
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“We are going to talk about pensions to say that our position is still firm and that the fight continues, but there are other subjects which are also priorities”as “purchasing power, value sharing”, but also “the conditionality of aid”, he details. “Today, there are more than 100 billion euros in aid and exemptions to companies which are given without necessarily compensation and this is no longer acceptable”plague the trade unionist.
According to him, “if we recover 10% of this aid which is” judged “useless, it’s between 8 and 10 billion that we recover in the coffers”, says the president of the CFTC, adding: “We can see that there were other solutions to finance pensions.”
Cyril Chabanier calls the state “to make a move on the salaries of our civil servants”. He believes that as “the leading employer in France”, He should “show the example before asking companies to raise wages”. Because if “the State cannot do everything, nor can it do anything”.