The boss of the CFDT does not imagine that the 64 years are not mentioned during the meeting proposed by Élisabeth Borne on the evening of a new national mobilization against the pension reform, Tuesday March 28. “We are going to talk about 64 years”, asked Laurent Berger this Wednesday morning on franceinfo. “I will explain why this reform is unfair and why we must find a way out,” he predicts. And if it is not possible to discuss the subject during the meeting, “then we will leave”.
Is this the scenario that is brewing for this meeting? We can fear it, after the remarks made this Thursday also by the Minister of Relations with Parliament Franck Riester and the president of the MoDem, François Bayrou. The question of raising the legal retirement age to 64 will not be on the menu of the planned meeting between Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and the inter-union, they warned together.
“Everything has been done and committed”
The postponement of the age from 62 to 64, “this is the heart of the reform on which, from the start, there is no agreement”, declared Riester on Public Senate. “In life, there are times, you have to know how to recognize that there are also subjects (on which) we don’t agree”, he added, wishing that the exchange would be is organized around “subjects on which we agree”.
“The 64 years are in the text”, added François Bayrou on France 2, “we cannot change the line at this point”. But for him, “there is matter to discuss”, if “you listen carefully to what Laurent Berger said”, the general secretary of the CFDT, the first French union.
The High Commissioner for Planning, an ally of Emmanuel Macron, recalled that “the government has said that no one will work over the age of 43 to have their full pension rights, so you can see that the positions are not so far apart in truth “. “The situation in which we are is unbearable, immoral, scandalous, (…): we pay pensions (retirement) with debt”, he assured, evaluating at between 20 and 25% the proportion of pensions concerned.
The unions, united for more than two months against the pension reform and the lowering of the retirement age to 64, called on Tuesday for a new day of national mobilization, Thursday, April 6.