Concern Initially scheduled for Thursday, the presentation of the pension reform has been rescheduled for January 10
Two demonstrators with placards reading “Macron Medef Increase our RETREATS” and “Minimum RETIREMENT at Smic at 2000 Euros” Le Mans (Sarthe), November 10, 2022 — GILE Michel/SIPA
Initially scheduled for Thursday, the presentation of the pension reform has been rescheduled for January 10. This announcement comes the day after the appointment of the new leaders to; the head of the Republicans and of Europe Ecology the Greens. “This allows us to have a few more weeks so that those who (…) have just taken on responsibilities can, on a few key elements of the reform, “ change with the government,” Emmanuel Macron by opening the second plenary session of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) in Paris. the Elysée.
Providing for a postponement of the departure from age to retirement at; 64 or 65 years old, this text meets strong opposition from all the unions. “They are stubborn, I mean it,” say that you have to work until 65,” Thursday the secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez.
“We will be vigilant to do not fall into any trap”
This announcement of the postponement of the presentation of this text is greeted with caution, even mistrust by the social partners. “My first reaction is to ask myself: “What the fuck?”. The second is to tell me that we gain a few precious weeks. The third is mistrust,” summarizes Simon Duteil (Solidaires).
The CFDT indicates in a press release; “take note” of the postponement, which will “allow” to “continue to carry out its priority demands for more social justice”. But the first French union “reiterates its opposition to any transfer from the starting age terminal to retirement”, a “brutal measure that would first penalize the most modest employees”.
Through the voice of its confederal secretary Céline Verzeletti, the CGT estimated that the postponement showed “the feverishness of the government, which fears a strong mobilization”. Will the unions give up call this week at; a first day of action in January? “We will be vigilant to not to fall into any trap,” says Franç Hommeril (CFE-CGC).
On the side of the CGT, “we know that mobilizations will be needed. We think that, in any case, we will have to be ready for the first half of January,” says C&éline Verzeletti. “It does not change anything for us in terms of mobilization: we had decided to to wait until January, and there will be a mobilization in January,” supports Michel Beaugas (FO).