” A failure. The inter-union denounced Wednesday morning the “serious decision” of Elisabeth Borne not to suspend the pension reform. Arriving around 10 a.m. at Matignon, the eight union leaders decided to leave “this useless meeting” – in the words of Sophie Binet (CGT) – after an hour of discussions. “We can’t move on until the reform is withdrawn,” insisted Sophie Binet. Laurent Berger (CFDT) called on workers and all French people to mobilize as much as possible in the street, during the mobilization day this Thursday, April 6.

“We have repeated to the Prime Minister that there can be no other democratic outcome than the withdrawal of the text. The Prime Minister replied that she wanted to maintain her text, a serious decision, “said Cyril Chabanier (CFTC) on behalf of the intersyndicale on the steps of Matignon. “It’s bound to be a failure when the Prime Minister doesn’t make any overtures to this discussion. So, yeah, it’s got to be a failure,” he added. The unions refuse to “turn the page and open, as the government wishes, other sequences of consultations”.

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“We appeal to the wisdom of the Constitutional Council, which must hear the just anger of the workers,” said the union official, while the Elders must decide on the reform on April 14. He also invited “to join massively” in the eleventh day of mobilization scheduled for Thursday.

“We will not ignore the fact that millions of employees are mobilizing”, underlined alongside him the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger, believing that “we are experiencing a serious democratic crisis”. “The Prime Minister sent us a plea of ??inadmissibility and chose to send us back to the streets”, launched Sophie Binet.

After the unions spoke in the Matignon courtyard, Élisabeth Borne also gave her point of view on this meeting and assured that she would not “consider moving forward without the social partners”. “Even though our disagreements over age didn’t allow for meaningful discussion, I believe this meeting nonetheless marks an important milestone,” she said. “The trade unions, as they were able to tell you, are available to work on these subjects later and I have told them my availability and that of my government. »