He insisted on taking on the leading role: Laurent Berger would not have left it to anyone else to read the text of the eight trade unions. It was therefore he who, one hour after the announcement of the postponement to 64 of the retirement age, on Tuesday January 10, stood up in front of the cameras, surrounded by his counterparts from other unions, to call on the French at “a powerful mobilization”. A question of precedence: the CFDT assumes its status as the first trade union in France. But also a symbolic value: the central reformist brilliantly marks its commitment to the front of the refusal.
A little earlier in the morning, it was already at the headquarters of the CFDT, in the Parisian district of Belleville, that the union officials met to set the date of the first demonstration and finalize their common text. Differences in union culture could have complicated matters between competing organisations. “Not at all, it was done very easilyconfides Dominique Corona, the number two of Unsa, because the eight are in agreement on the essential: this reform is useless and unjust. »
For the first time in twelve years, all the unions will therefore be gathered in the street on Thursday 19 January. Even the CFE-CGC, the union of executive employees. Even the CFTC, the Christian-inspired confederation. “Demonstrating is not really our philosophy, however”concedes its manager, Cyril Chabanier, who has resolved to do violence to himself and join
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