The subject is far from closed. Invited on LCI this Tuesday morning, the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, returned to the pension reform, while the weekend will be marked by a new day of mobilization on Thursday and the response of the Constitutional Council on Friday.
“I am not one of those who consider that dialogue is useless”, but “sometimes it is a bit late”, first judged the leader of the CFDT. Returning to the meeting held with Elisabeth Borne last week, he recalled that it had taken place “more than two months after the first mobilization. It’s too late,” he said. “This episode on pensions is not over and it leaves enormous traces”, warned Laurent Berger, still on LCI.
A reform that will only make “losers”
In the immediate future, the inter-union will decide on Friday, after the rendering of the decision of the Constitutional Council, what would happen to the movement. “The CFDT will not hold demonstrations for six months”, but the union will remain vigilant, in particular on “the implementation” of the reform, he warned.
For the union leader, the text, if it were validated this Friday, would only make “losers”: the workers “because many of them will be forced to work two more years”, and the “democracy”, weakened by this episode.
Laurent Berger also returned to the tense exchanges of the last few days with the entourage of Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne. “Nobody can assign us a role, (…) the CFDT is in the role that it assigns itself”, he retorted to the Prime Minister, who considered that he was “not in his union role” when he spoke of a democratic crisis – an expression he used many times to describe the current situation and which he reiterated once again this Tuesday morning on LCI.
This “democratic crisis” is not “the sole and entire responsibility of the government” and “that does not mean that we live in a country which is not democratic”, he nuanced. But “I am issuing an alert”, but it is taken “as a form of attack”, regretted the secretary general of the CFDT. A “mistake on the part of the government”, in his eyes.