The CFDT “will discuss” with the Prime Minister if she is invited to do so, despite the persistent disagreement on the pension reform and whatever the format envisaged, assured, Sunday April 30, its secretary general, Laurent Berger.
Matignon said on Friday that Elisabeth Borne would send invitations to the unions next week to try to renew the dialogue, meetings which could take place bilaterally.
“If we have an invitation, we will go and discuss”, and this “in the format that it will decide”, declared Mr. Berger, who was the guest of the “Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI”, but with prerequisites “in terms of method and in terms of substantive topics”.
“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”.
Actions communes
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 inter-union, the decision will be taken collectively” after the mobilization day of May 1st.
“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 increase, thawing of the index point…”, declared for his part. the leader of Force Ouvrière, Frédéric Souillot, in the columns of the Sunday newspaper.
“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 Mr. 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] have common actions”, he assured.
