Pensions: Berger (CFDT) calls for "mediation" for "a way out"

Europe 1 with AFP 10:13 am, March 28, 2023

The number one of the CFDT Laurent Berger asked Tuesday the executive to set up a "mediation" to "find a way out" to the social crisis, while opponents of the pension reform are preparing to demonstrate again. "It takes a month, a month and a half, to ask one, two, three people to mediate," Laurent Berger said on France Inter, calling for a "gesture of appeasement to find a way out".

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"A strong gesture to make"

He again called to "suspend the measure of 64 years" which crystallizes the oppositions, believing that "entering into a mediation process" would be "a strong gesture to make" on the part of the executive. "We take a month and a half where we say '64 years will not apply' and we do mediation. Then we sit around the table and we look at the question of work, pensions, on what there may or may not be a social compromise, "said the secretary general of the CFDT.

The decision of the Constitutional Council on the bill is expected "in fifteen days, three weeks, it is too long in this context of tensions". The executive fears new violence and plans an unprecedented security device during the 10th day of mobilization and strikes on Tuesday. "What the inter-union is proposing today is a gesture of appeasement" that "must be seized," said Laurent Berger.