“The population is very unfavorable to the project, and this opinion tends to gain momentum,” says the leader of the CFDT, three days before a new day of demonstrations against the pension reform.
Neglect the “massive mobilizations“Against the pension reform”would be a fault“for the government as for the Parliament, warns the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, Saturday in an interview with the Monde .
«The population is very unfavorable to the project, and this opinion tends to grow“Says the leader of the first French union, three days before a new day of demonstrations all over France against the pension reform and the postponement of the legal age to 64 years. After the “massive mobilizationsof January 19 (1.12 million participants according to the police, more than 2 million according to the organizers), with in particular “large processions in medium-sized towns“, the boss of the CFDT underlines that”opinion is an element of the balance of power».
«The government must listen to it, Parliament must be concerned about what is happening everywhere“, He adds, while the bill will be examined in the Assembly from Monday. Ignore this context.would be a mistake“Warns Laurent Berger, worried about the consequences”if the text passed as is, without any inflection“, at the risk of generating “resentmentand favoring the extreme right. “We don’t need democratic chaos“, he insists.
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Worried of “keep the opinionFor his part, he does not support the blocking strategy advocated by other organizations, judging that “the level of trade union effectiveness is not measured by the level of concrete hassle for citizens“. Not in favor of a multiplication of days of action either, because “many workers cannot keep up with such an intense pace», he feels that hestill need one or two demonstrations of force“so that the executive”become aware of the powerful rejection that his text arouses».
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