In line with the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, defending a pension reform « left” and “without losers”, it was Gabriel Attal who stepped up to the plate this Saturday. The Minister of Public Accounts himself raised his voice against the unions who wish to put “France on hold” on Tuesday against the pension reform, explaining that it is “the French that they will block” and “the workers that they will bring to their knees”.
On the sidelines of a visit to the Agricultural Show, Attal called on opponents of the reform to “responsibility” and “get out of hypocrisy”. “When I hear officials explain that they want to block France, in reality it is the French that they are going to block. When I hear some who say they want to bring the economy to its knees, it is the workers they are going to bring to its knees,” he castigated.
According to Gabriel Attal, the strikes for certain renewables which will affect key sectors of the economy such as transport, will penalize “those who toil, that is to say the French who have to get up in the morning, take their metro, their RER, their car to go to work”.
“Those who struggle the most are the French who work the hardest”
“White collar workers in general can telecommute, they can go to work by bike because they don’t live very far from their work. Those who struggle the most when there are blockages are the French who work the hardest, that’s why I call for responsibility, ”he added to journalists.
“Our door has always been open, is always open to exchange with the trade unions and moreover there is work in progress in parliament (…) precisely to take into account the concerns, the worries, the doubts”, he added. he completed. Thursday, during a public debate organized near Saint-Étienne with several union officials, the N.2 of the CFDT Marylise Léon had affirmed: “The idea is not to block France, it is to block this reform”.
The Senate immersed itself Saturday in the examination of one of the most sensitive measures of the pension reform project, the end of several special regimes, while the pressure mounts in the street and the companies before the mobilization of March 7 . Electricians and gas workers, affected by this disappearance of their regime, began a renewable strike on Friday. It leads to reductions in electricity production in several nuclear power plants, the equivalent of five reactors, without causing cuts for customers.
“If Emmanuel Macron does not want a France at a standstill and a black week in energy, it would be better for him to withdraw his reform”, warned Sébastien Ménesplier, secretary general of the CGT Energy. “We will be capable of anything,” warned Fabrice Coudour, Federal Secretary. On tour in Africa, the head of state said on Saturday that he had “not much new to say”.