“a patch”, according to Laurent Berger

The announcement by the Prime Minister, on an early retirement at 63 for people who started working early, “is not the” expected “response to the massive mobilization observed”, the boss said on Sunday. of the CFDT. “Clearly, this is not the response to the massive, geographically and professionally diverse mobilization that took place” on January 19 and 31, said on France Inter Laurent Berger, general secretary of the CFDT, the first French union, qualifying this type of “patch” announcements.

“The postponement of the legal age to 64 accentuates the inequalities inherent in the world of work”

“The basic problem of this reform is the postponement of the legal age to 64, which accentuates the inequalities inherent in the world of work”, for “women, people who started working early, who painful jobs, careers cut or who are fired from their job “a few years from their retirement, he underlined. “We then try to put patches”.

He was reacting to an announcement by Elisabeth Borne in the JDD, on the eve of the kick-off of the debates before the National Assembly on the highly contested pension reform. The Prime Minister indicated that people who started working between the ages of 20 and 21 will be able to retire at 63, and not 64 as provided for in the reform, thus responding favorably to the request of LR deputies.

Laurent Berger recalled that the Yellow Vests had been a maximum of 284,000 to march in 2017/2018 according to police figures, and that the demonstrators on January 31 were 1.27 million, still according to the police, “by being non-violent and peaceful”. “What are the prospects for a democratic country when we act as if 1.27 million people do not exist, and we have (on the other hand) responded to actions that are sometimes very violent?”.

Not “anti-Macron”

The number one of the CFDT said he was not “in a fight against the government”, or “anti-Macron”. “I have nothing to do with that, what interests me is the concrete situation of the workers who have been hit very hard by this reform”.

Laurent Berger said he had “very constructive exchanges with members of the majority”. “Of course, it will be up to them to decide. They have to look in all the cities and constituencies where they are elected. When, for example, you are a deputy for Ain and there are 10,000 demonstrators in Bourg- in-Bresse, should that leave you totally indifferent?”, he asked.

Source: Europe1

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