Paris (AFP)
The government continues discussions on its highly contested pension reform and is preparing for a massive or even lasting movement from December 5, black Thursday he does not want to see transformed into a "deadly match" with the unions.
The mobilization against the merger of the 42 existing pension plans into a "universal" system by points "looks strong and sustainable," warned Friday the CGT, which called for an interprofessional strike with FO, the FSU and Solidaires.
The movement should be particularly followed and could last several days in public transport, especially in Île-de-France, because of the call for an indefinite strike launched at the RATP and the SNCF.
The unions and youth organizations (high school students Fidl, MNL and UNL, the student Unef) are already planning in the after 5-December, with a new inter-union planned from the morning of 6 to consider the future.
In the opposition, on the left and on the right, some dream of a powerful mobilization: a "big warning shot" for Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Standing France), "a 5 to 7" to last at least until Saturday 7 with "yellow vests + in the street", hopes Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI).
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The executive itself is working on a long-term social crisis.
"The government will do its utmost to support the French best," said Prime Minister Philippe.
He therefore convened on Friday afternoon at Matignon key ministers to organize the emergency services in case of blockage of the country. In particular, there will be Agnès Buzyn (Health), Christophe Castaner (Interior), Muriel Pénicaud (Labor), Gérald Darmanin (Budget), Élisabeth Borne and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (Transport).
But a priori not Jean-Paul Delevoye, who already has work to do: the High Commissioner Retirement confirmed Friday that he would receive again, for a final demining operation, "all trade unions between now and 5 December".
"We must be careful not to turn this December 5 into a deadly match.We need unions," he pleaded in an interview at 20 minutes.
The executive has multiplied the consultations this week, sending both signs of openness to unions and instructions of firmness to his troops to better cut cards before Christmas.
Hot and cold, at the same time. On the one hand, the fire fed on special regimes "from another era" and their "corporatist claims". On the other hand, the hand extended to the "social partners", with whom "dialogue continues".
Pressed to get out of "ambiguity", which reproaches both unions and employers, the government assumes its ambivalence. Like Edward Philippe "more determined than ever to build the universal pension system" but "open to discussion" to achieve "without brutality".
Leaving the ballast on topics dear to unions, such as family rights, hardship or "guarantees" expected by teachers.
Even to postpone the entry into force of the reform beyond 2025: the new rules would therefore not apply from the 1963 generation but "to people a little more distant from retirement".
What, hope the power, defuse the challenge and prevent the front formed by the CGT, FO and CFE-CGC executives to expand to the CFDT, whose support for the reform hangs by a thread, while its federation of railway workers has itself filed a strike notice.
More than 150 events are planned throughout France next Thursday, including one in Paris in the afternoon between the Gare de l'Est and Place de la Nation if the police prefecture validates this course.
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