2023-05-02 18:21:02
By calling this Tuesday for a new day of action on June 6, the inter-union pensions sent a clear signal: all those who hoped to see it turn the page on the challenge are at their expense. The opposition to 64-year-olds is here to stay, write its members in the press release published on Tuesday after a videoconference meeting between their numbers one.
Employment of seniors, wages, professional wear and tear, retraining… A new sequence is now beginning to build the social agenda for the months to come, Elisabeth Borne having placed it at the top of her roadmap. With, in the background, a new balance of power that is emerging between the three actors in the play – executive, unions and employers – the latter being afraid of paying the price, as shown in a letter to which “Les Echos” had access.
Distrust of the executive
In this letter sent on Tuesday, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux for Medef, François Asselin for CPME and Dominique Métayer for U2P invite their counterparts from CFDT, CGT, FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC to meet “as soon as possible” to “discuss our method and determine the negotiating agenda ourselves”. The concern is such that the three signatories propose that the meeting take place “even briefly not by videoconference”.
Why such a rush? Quite simply because the employers prefer to keep the executive as far away as possible, fearing that it will not know how to refuse the unions after having imposed the 64 years on them. Their letter says it without ambiguity: “If we want to decide together our subjects of discussion – without letting anything be imposed on us by the government -, we must quickly decide on the themes and the timetable in which we wish to address them”, can we read there. .
In support of its request, the employers are highlighting the successes of the autonomous social agenda – these negotiations which the social partners have decided to carry out themselves and which have resulted in several agreements, on occupational health and parity for example. “Without the need for a framework letter from the government”, recall the three employers’ organizations.
To drive the point home, the Medef, the CPME and the U2P claim to have “obtained” during their meeting on April 18 with Emmanuel Macron (the one who had been boycotted by the unions) important guarantees: “If we accepted together to open negotiations on subjects that we would choose, certain fundamental principles would be respected: no government interference in the negotiation, a reasonable period of time to conclude and finally a faithful transcription of the agreement when the negotiation succeeds. »
Between two irons
Hence the demand to anticipate without wasting time. “Our next meeting is scheduled only for June 5, which seems to us too far a deadline”, write the three signatories who will propose dates in the coming days. “The employers are afraid. He knows that if he did not give up on pensions, the government came out of it weakened. We have an advantage and we are not going to waste it, we will take our time, ”reacted a union official, on condition of anonymity.
In this opening sequence, three tempos collide. In a hurry to turn the page as quickly as possible, the government must give substance by July 14 (the famous hundred days) to its profession of faith in social dialogue. Except that he has to reckon with the unions: no longer having confidence, they have time for themselves and want to obtain the guarantees they want before returning to the negotiating table. Employers, suddenly, seek an ally to avoid finding themselves between two irons.
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