2023-06-16 03:30:11
MDespite mobilization lasting and at a record level, the pension reform was adopted. Should we conclude that we have lost? No. For Emmanuel Macron and his government, everything will be more complicated now, and the price to pay will be high.
We are entering the long term. Pension reform will be Emmanuel Macron’s pan until the end of his five-year term. And with all those of his ministers, it’s a cookware that he drags behind him.
We will now use all the levers at our disposal to continue to denounce and prevent the application of this violent, unjust and unjustified reform. We will fight to win through the window what we lost through the door. For this, we call for the opening of negotiations in all companies and all branches to win early departures for hardship and taking into account years of study.
We will fight so that the Agirc-Arrco negotiation, which will open soon on the supplementary pension of private sector employees, makes it possible to improve the level of pensions. New shared initiative referendum proposals will be tabled. We will challenge every decree of this unjust reform. And the government will not be able to muzzle Parliament for four years.
Seeds for the future
We recall. What a government has done, a government can undo. What a president has done, a president can undo. Now or in four years. The end of the five-year term will be long, very long for Emmanuel Macron. If he wants to govern the country once more, he will have to worry less regarding the big bosses and more regarding the social situation of the country and the workers.
We won on three major points, which are precious seeds for the future. First, we won the battle of ideas. Despite the « there is no alternative » [« il n’y a pas d’alternative », formule de Margaret Thatcher] and media hype regarding the need to ” make efforts “almost the entire population is opposed to raising the retirement age.
Better: a large majority of employees are in favor of returning to retirement at 60, a measure of common sense, as it is impossible to work following 60 in many professions. This aspiration not to lose one’s life to earn it, very strong among the younger generations, represents a decisive point of support.
Work remains central, but it is no longer enough. It must have a meaning, in particular with ever-increasing environmental and social requirements, but also it must make it possible to have a family, social and civic life. The mobilization has therefore created a balance of power to re-examine working conditions, but also the purpose and working time, with the aspiration to reduce working time, long a minority, which is making a comeback, in particular with the four-day week.
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