Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne invited the unions on May 16 and 17 in a bilateral format, Matignon said on Friday May 5, who told Reuters that the invitations had been sent.
Matignon announced on Monday that invitations would be sent at the end of the week to trade unions who called for a new day of mobilization against the pension reform on June 6, two days before the discussion in the National Assembly of a bill. aimed at repealing the contested text in the street since the beginning of the year.
Regarding the consultations with the executive, the unions had affirmed after the demonstration on May 1 that they “work[ai]nt on joint inter-union proposals involving employers, so that the concerns of [employees] are finally taken into account” while confirming “their refusal of the pension reform”.