On the 15th day of strikes, negotiations still stall. After two days of discussions with the social partners, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has failed to calm the rebellion against the pension reform. CGT leader Philippe Martinez announced a new inter-professional day of demonstrations and strikes on January 9.
"The Prime Minister is attached to the balance of the system of" pensions, "from this point of view there has been nothing new," regretted the union leader. "The CGT obviously does not share this project, so on behalf of the intersyndicale (CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, Solidaires, FSU), I can announce that a next interprofessional day of action will take place on January 9 ", he added. "The only concrete thing is that the Prime Minister did not hear the street."
"Beyond the initiatives already scheduled, on December 19 and without break until the end of 2019, organizations call for a new powerful day of strikes and inter-professional and intergenerational demonstrations on Thursday January 9, 2020 ", said the intersyndicale in a press release.
For the number one of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, disagreements persist on the question of the age of equilibrium accompanied by a bonus-malus system that the government wants to introduce at 64 in order to contribute to the balanced budget of the pension system.
"There is a disagreement on the temporality which consists in saying that there will be an urgent need for punitive measures for the workers and a disagreement on the method itself," said the secretary general of the central reformist.
"If at the beginning of January this age of equilibrium was still on the horizon, we would have initiatives," he warned.
For Yves Veyrier, number one of FO who like the CGT calls for the complete withdrawal of the points system project, "we are in a situation that has not changed. The Prime Minister is trying to trap us".
"We are offered discussions very quickly, but with a constraint (...), the bill is written," he said.
"It is up to the government to press the pause button".
To try to get out of the crisis, the Prime Minister proposed thematic meetings in early January on the
arduousness, transitions to the single pension scheme, the minimum contribution and the end of career, said
François Asselin, President of the CPME.
By January, the intersyndicale (CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires, Fidl, MNL, Unef, Unl) mobilized since December 5, warned, in a press release published Thursday after the meeting, that it would continue its actions and that it would not observe, unlike the CFDT and Unsa, a truce during the holiday season.
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