It takes a “massive” mobilization on Tuesday, called on Monday the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, on the eve of a sixth day of action against the pension reform.
“I call on the employees of this country, the citizens of this country, the retirees of this country, who are against the pension reform, to come and demonstrate massively”, indicated the trade unionist on France Inter, Monday morning.
“I think tomorrow we have to have an extremely powerful mobilization day. That means a lot of people in the streets first. There are even more places of demonstrations than other times, there are more than 250 , 260,” he added.
The unions want to do better than January 31, when the police had identified 1.27 million participants and the inter-union more than 2.5 million in the streets of France against the government’s pension reform project.
In this context, Laurent Berger asked for a response from the Head of State.
“The President of the Republic cannot remain deaf. We cannot have this silence now which has lasted for two months with just small sentences calling for each other’s responsibility without taking the problem into account”, he said. -he says.
The union leader also regretted the absence of discussions with the government. “We are in a conflict where for the moment we have not been received in the inter-union collectively by anyone from the government”, lamented Mr. Berger.
“We don’t have a lack of explanation, we have to stop taking people for idiots (…). It’s not a problem of pedagogy as we understand this reform. It’s a problem social injustice. It’s a problem of inequality,” continued Mr. Berger. “Today there is a large-scale social movement expressing itself (…) and a political response will be needed”, he hammered.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is due to speak Monday evening on France 5.
03/06/2023 20:11:43 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
