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In front of the union front, the government and the majority do not intend to yield. While major events are planned in France on December 5, to protest against the pension reform project, and that the unions of the RATP and the SNCF, but also the inter-union CGT, FO, FSU and Solidaires, as well as Air France, EDF organizations or lawyers call for an indefinite strike, the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand castigates in the columns of the Sunday newspaper " a mobilization to maintain inequalities."
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"I am hopeful that we will save a pension system that is today unequal and out of breath," he said, calling for "to build an economically sustainable and fair system that will create the same rights. for all on a universal model, not by corporation ".
Three months after the resumption of consultations on pension reform, unions and employers are again invited to Matignon Monday and Tuesday. Officially, it is "to make a point on the whole reform: the target system (universal, which must replace the 42 existing pension schemes, ed), the transition and return to equilibrium in 2025" , according to Matignon. But the opposition and the unions remain standing up against the project.
"Let's get out of neurasthenia"
"Let's get out of neurasthenia", claims the president of the National Assembly, before lambasting the day of events scheduled for December 5, seeing "a mobilization to maintain inequalities that we can not and do not want to assume."
However, he admits, "the contours of the future pension system remain unclear and some hiccups, as on the clause of the grandfather, add to the trouble". Indeed, High Commissioner Jean-Paul Delevoye had been reframed in early November by Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe after opposing this clause allowing workers already in place at the time of the vote of the law to continue to enjoy their benefits. "When we are in the most transparent dialogue, this sometimes creates a feeling of creative disorder," said Richard Ferrand, defending "continuous and in-depth consultations".
Returning to the fears raised by the reform, the former socialist explains that before a change, "there is always a fear, a climate anxiety". Before warning that the government does not intend to end its reforms. "Our reform work continues," he says.