While the unions refuse to raise the legal retirement age to 64 or 65, the government is sticking to its positions for the CGT representative.
“We are not heard.” Philippe Martinez, the secretary general of the CGT, after an interview on Wednesday with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, denounced on BFTMV the lack of listening from the government about its pension reform project.
“There is a dogmatic position of the Prime Minister, but especially of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron […] There is a very personal aspect to Mr. Macron”, he declared on our antenna.
Philippe Martinez, who does not want the French to have to work longer, “made the proposals in this direction” to the Prime Minister. This is why he did not consider this dialogue to be useless.
“This dialogue served to show that there were alternatives to working until 64 or 65, he said before adding that not everything is to be thrown away. [dans le projet réforme des retraites]but working longer is unthinkable.”
Mobilizations “from January”
When he left Matignon, the secretary general of the CGT had predicted “significant mobilizations from this month of January”.
“We ended our interview on what was going to happen. I did not hide it from her, but she suspected it, that there were going to be major mobilizations from this month of January”, continued Philippe Martinez, specifying n learned “nothing new”.
All unions oppose the postponement of the legal retirement age. CFDT also assured that it would mobilize against a decline in the legal age, as well as the CFTC or Labor Force.
