The inter-union now has the “clear objective” of “winning the vote to repeal the pension reform in the National Assembly on June 8”, CGT secretary general Sophie Binet told AFP on Tuesday.
The deputies must examine that day a bill of the small heterogeneous centrist group Liot aiming to repeal the law just promulgated.
“It’s not done at all, it’s not won, and that’s why we’re having a day of action on June 6. But it’s a credible prospect and we’re going to multiply the initiatives of interpellation deputies,” she said.
If this bill were passed, “it would be a thunderclap”, estimated the new general secretary of the CGT.
Admittedly, this would only be the start of a long parliamentary shuttle between the Assembly and the Senate, but this “would immediately raise the question of the suspension of the reform” which must apply from September.
Ms. Binet believes that “trade union unity is further strengthened after May Day” and “resists all the divisive strategies organized by the government”.
On the consultations announced by the Prime Minister, the inter-union press release suggests that all the organizations will go, but the CGT “will decide on the terms of its participation after its national confederal committee on Thursday”.
“If we participate, we will have significant requirements in terms of form and substance, like all trade union organizations,” said Sophie Binet.
In this context, the CGT “will fully integrate into the work of the inter-union definition of common proposals in terms of wages, working conditions, social democracy, gender equality and the environment”.
These proposals “will require that employers, who currently have a right of veto on everything, put water in their wine”, she said.
02/05/2023 18:21:46 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
