Elisabeth Borne failed on Tuesday to convince the unions.

“The CFDT will mobilize” in the event of raising the legal retirement age to 64 or 65, thus warned the secretary general of the first French union, on leaving a meeting at Matignon.

"We come out determined not to let a reform pass which will first impact the most modest", underlined Laurent Berger, first received by the Prime Minister who receives until Wednesday the leaders of the trade unions and employers' organizations on the reform. retirements.

Determined to raise the legal age of departure by two or three years on the grounds of restoring the balance of pension schemes, Elisabeth Borne temporized again on Tuesday morning by affirming that the threshold of "65 years" was not "a pole”.

But "the CFDT does not come out saying 'we made the Prime Minister bend'", said Laurent Berger after his interview with her.

“I say it here and I said it to the Prime Minister: if there is a postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 or 65, the CFDT will mobilize to challenge this reform”.

A reform "which is not necessary today"

“Contrary to what the President of the Republic said in his vows, this reform, as it is emerging, is not a reform that will make the system fairer, it is a reform that will make the more unfair system and which is not necessary today (…) However, this government is preparing to take the toughest measures of the last thirty years in a pension reform”, he argued.

The manager also lamented that he had “not had a lot of clarification” on other points, such as the employment of seniors, long careers, hardship and the minimum contribution.

Seeing the bilateral meetings with the social partners as a "last lap" before the presentation of the reform scheduled for January 10, Laurent Berger has therefore said he is already "determined" to call "employees to mobilize in the street, in conjunction with the other unions.

FO promises “significant” mobilization

Received after him, the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril also explained that the reform was “unjustified” and “unfair”.

While the Prime Minister "proposes a number of measures", such as "greater reinforced monitoring of the population by occupational medicine in the company from a certain age", "we are not quite made on the same planet,” he explained to her.

At the start of the evening, the secretary general of FO, Frédéric Souillot, displayed the same determination, promising a “significant” mobilization, because a “majority of French people are against a decline in the starting age”.

“That means strikes, demonstrations and then the general assemblies will decide on the renewal of the strike”.

The Prime Minister now has a day to try to temporize with the other union leaders.

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