“It is necessarily a failure”: after a meeting of less than an hour at Matignon this Wednesday with Élisabeth Borne, during which the Prime Minister refused, according to the unions, the withdrawal of the pension reform, the intersyndicale saw no progress.
“We repeated to the Prime Minister that there can be no other democratic outcome than the withdrawal of the text. The Prime Minister replied that she wanted to maintain her text, a serious decision, “said Cyril Chabanier (CFTC), on behalf of the intersyndicale, on the steps of Matignon.
“It is inevitably a failure when the Prime Minister does not make any opening on this discussion”, he added. In addition, the unions refuse to “turn the page and open, as the government wishes, other sequences of consultations”.
“A serious democratic crisis”
“We appeal to the wisdom of the Constitutional Council, which must hear the just anger of the workers,” said the union official, while the Elders must decide on the reform on April 14. He also invited “to join massively” in the eleventh day of mobilization scheduled for Thursday.
“We will not ignore the fact that millions of employees are mobilizing”, underlined, at his side, the general secretary of the CFDT Laurent Berger, considering that “we are experiencing a serious democratic crisis”.
“The Prime Minister has sent us an end of inadmissibility and has chosen to send us back to the street”, launched for her part the new general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, castigating a “useless” meeting and assuring that the intersyndicale “will be united to the end”.
According to her, “we cannot move on until the pension reform is withdrawn”. Sophie Binet also criticized the attitude of the government, which she considers “obtuse and disconnected”, and explained that it was Laurent Berger, on behalf of the inter-union, who had “ended the meeting”.