Jacques Serais / Photo credit: STEPHANIE LECOCQ / POOL / AFP 06:57, April 19, 2023

Emmanuel Macron travels this Wednesday to Muttersholtz, a small Alsatian town of 2,000 inhabitants. If the unions shunned the first meeting at the Élysée after the promulgation of the postponement of the legal age of departure, the President intends to use the "pact of life at work" to bring them back to his table.

After the pension reformEmmanuel Macron has a new hobbyhorse: "the pact of life at work". The Head of State will also make a trip this Wednesday afternoon on this theme in the Bas-Rhin, in Muttersholtz. If the unions shunned the first meeting at the Élysée after promulgation of the postponement of the legal age of departure, the President intends to use this pact to bring them back to his table.

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The Head of State needs trade unions

Emmanuel Macron needs the unions to move forward. What could be better than to take up the provisions of the pension reform rejected by the Constitutional Council to try to appease them. This is exactly what the head of state is doing with this pact of working life.

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Emmanuel Macron wants to invite unions back to the negotiating table

On the table of future negotiations: the employment of seniors with tools such as the senior permanent contract or the senior index but also measures supposed to answer the questions of the President during his speech: "How to live better from one's work, how to live better at work, how to better prepare the end of career and retraining?"

Beyond the nod to the collective of the "Pact of the power to live" of which the CFDT is a part, Emmanuel Macron indirectly forces the unions to renew the dialogue with him. "These are subjects that we carry all the time, we are stuck, we have no choice but to go," admits an official of a reformist union.