On the eve of a new day of call to strike against the pension reform, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne receives Wednesday, April 5 at 10 a.m. the inter-union in Matignon, then the employers at 5 p.m. She hopes to renew the dialogue with the trade unions, but it seems to be on the wrong track. This is the first time since January 10 that the unions and Elisabeth Borne will talk to each other. In absolute terms, this is progress: “Finally a date”reacts the inter-union, but this meeting has little chance of leading to a way out of the crisis.
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The union leaders are very clear: they only come to discuss pensions, like Murielle Guilbert, general delegate of the Solidaire union. “It would be completely off the ground to want to discuss hardship, working conditionsshe says, when we have been discussing these subjects for years and we are not heard. It would be completely out of step with our social movement.”
And if there is no question of talking about the 64 years, the withdrawal or the suspension of the reform, the unions will very quickly leave the meeting.
“Change method”
On the government side, we don’t want “shortened meeting“, and we want dialogue and listening, says government spokesperson Olivier Véran. Élisabeth Borne, for her part, wants above all to talk about employment for seniors, end of career, hardship, … In short, turn the page That’s out of the question, warns Benoît Teste, secretary general of the FSU: “We do not want to address a future social agenda which would mean that the reform page would be turned. What we want is to make the depth of the anger understood. It will continue to be expressed.”
“We are also going to this meeting to recall our union unity, to say that public opinion is always on our side”, assures François Hommeril, the president of the CFE-CGC, the union of executives. Pay attention to the “deep anger of the workers”, warns for its part the FSU. Withdrawing from the reform is the “only possible way out of the crisis”believes Sophie Binet, new general secretary of the CGT.
On the eve of the eleventh day of national strike, difficult to see how the situation can calm down between the executive and the unions. Elisabeth Borne will also receive the employers at the end of the afternoon. The Medef still supports the reform, but its president Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux calls on the Prime Minister to “change method”.