2023-05-03 00:06:44
The last stand, hoped for by the executive, is not yet for tomorrow. The protest once morest the pension reform will continue. A new mobilization date has just been added to the social agenda: June 6th. This 14th day of action was decided on Tuesday morning by the eight union leaders meeting by videoconference on the follow-up to be given to the movement. “There will undoubtedly also be actions on other dates, in different professional sectors” warns Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC.
In the followingmath of the mobilizations of May 1, which brought together between 2.3 million demonstrators according to the CGT and 782,000 according to the Ministry of the Interior, the unions are therefore now focusing on June 8. That day, the Liot group (Freedoms, independents, overseas and territories) must submit to parliament a bill to repeal the pension reform, which would only need a simple majority to be approved. This examination in Parliament “will allow for the first time the national representation to decide by a vote”, insists the inter-union in a press release.
“Go meet the deputies everywhere”
While waiting for this decisive political deadline, the activists are called upon to “go and meet the deputies everywhere”. Oddly, the centrals, on the other hand, are silent on the shared initiative referendum (RIP). Not a line indeed in the press release on the decision of the Constitutional Council expected this Wednesday on this subject. As if the union leaders had already given up on this other democratic possibility of countering the reform. “They’re going to sweep it away once more. Most of us no longer believe in it,” confides one of them who has little hope of a possible validation of this procedure by the Elders, following a first refusal on April 14 on a text almost similar.
The government has a completely different score in mind for the unions. Trying to put them back around the table is the meaning of the invitation launched – before May 1 – by Élisabeth Borne. History to open as quickly as possible “a cycle of consultations” and to shine the spotlight on the following page of the retreats. Will go, won’t go? This new date of mobilization does not change the position of the inter-union, they assure.
Most of them have already made it known, particularly in the reformist ranks, that they will not lend themselves to the policy of the empty chair. “Everyone is free to answer present or not. It does not change our union,” recalls a leader. So far, they claim to have received nothing. “Neither the object nor the framework are precisely fixed”, points out the inter-union which warns that it will not let itself be locked in a trap.
A common platform for proposals
How ? First, by setting conditions: for example, by requiring a framework letter for these discussions to take place in the presence of employers. “The problem we have today with the employers is that they do not want to negotiate, preferring to leave the hand to the government”, criticizes François Hommeril, the president of the CFE-CGC.
The eight centers also intend to impose on the Prime Minister the topics to be discussed. They announced that they were starting to work on a common platform of proposals. “The inter-union is welded. Some have tried to knock it out, but it doesn’t work. It is our strength both to challenge and to negotiate, ”galvanizes Dominique Corona, number 2 of the reformist union, the UNSA.
Discussions should begin in the coming days between officials and within the unions. Among the subjects which might achieve consensus within the intersyndicale: the requirement of compensation for the reductions in the burden granted to companies; the automatic raising of the minimum remuneration of the branches to the level of the minimum wage (150 out of 171 are currently below); the renegotiation of unemployment insurance in order to cancel the effects of the last reform implemented on February 1; the re-establishment of CHSCTs; or even the introduction of an obligation to negotiate on the organization of work in companies… “Now is the time to impose our wishes. If the government wants to talk with us, it must let us go, ”insists the boss of executives François Hommeril.
Will the eight arrive arm in arm at the rendezvous? “Going to Matignon together, yes, we hope so,” exclaims Dominique Corona of the UNSA, “but if we don’t succeed, and it has to take place bilaterally (each union received in turn)it will not be the end of the inter-union, however, ”he assures.
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