Cautious, Laurent Berger said he wanted to wait before trying Jean Castex, the new Prime Minister, appointed Friday in place of Edouard Philippe. "The role of a trade unionist is to do with the interlocutors who are before him," said the secretary general of the CFDT on LCI on Monday, while the composition of the government is expected during the day.
"I don't know much about the character, we'll see," he added, observing that "in fact, he's a man on the right, he's someone who comes from a rural area". “Are we finally going to take into account the weight of trade union organizations in this country? Asked Laurent Berger again, denouncing "a form of mistreatment of union organizations at certain times in the five-year period".
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- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) July 5, 2020"I would like this new Prime Minister to be in a logic of dialogue, that he organize a social and ecological conference as we request it to put the subjects on the table," he continued. The CFDT representative listed "the issue of unemployment insurance, the issue of employment, youth employment, poverty, ecological transition" as well as the "recovery plan". "Is it going to be discussed, concerted, or are we going to watch the trains go by?" If so, nothing will change, "he said.
"No time" to talk about pensions
Asked about the pension reform file, which Jean Castex said he wanted to settle in the short term, Mr. Berger, like his CGT counterpart Philippe Martinez the day before, estimated that there was "no business to deal with the question of pensions now is not the time ", while" the real question of the start of the school year is the question of employment ".
A little earlier on RMC, the secretary general of FO Yves Veyrier had expressed himself on the subject in very close terms. "This is not the time to put back the tension, the conflict", even as "the job cuts fall by the thousands", he said, judging that the subject of pensions, "it's nitroglycerin ".
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