Are the doors done slamming at Matignon? Guest of the LCI-RTL-Le Figaro grand jury, Laurent Berger was in favor of a new meeting with the Prime Minister, after the announcement made by his cabinet that an invitation would be sent to the unions next week for future discussions bilateral. “If we have an invitation, we will go and discuss”, and this “in the format that it will decide”, thus indicated the leader of the CFDT.
Laurent Berger however indicated that prerequisites “in terms of method and in terms of substantive subjects” should be laid down. “The CFDT (…) will go and discuss like a trade union in a company will discuss with its boss, even when his boss, some time before, did a dirty trick to him”, he said, judging that ” it is the role of trade unionists to discuss”.
The secretary general of the CGT, Sophie Binet, invited to react to these remarks on France 3, was much more cautious. “We will decide the day after tomorrow in the inter-union, we said to ourselves that we would decide together” after the day of mobilization on May 1, she said, insisting: “everyone communicates at their own pace, but the decision, we will take together as an inter-union”.
“Tuesday morning, we will discuss it within the framework of the inter-union, both on our participation and on the subjects to be brought together: purchasing power, wage increases, thawing of the index point…”, indicated de his side the leader of Force Ouvrière, Frédéric Souillot, in the columns of the JDD.
“I would like us to continue to work as an inter-union on the subject of work, on the subject of pensions, on the subject of unionization”, developed Laurent Berger, “but we are not a single trade union organization”. “We will not necessarily do everything in common”, but “I will bring to the inter-union on Tuesday the desire to continue to express ourselves together (and) to have common actions”, he assured.
