They will not go to the Elysée to discuss with the head of state. The intersyndicale will not accept a meeting with the executive before May 1, explained Sophie Binet, the new boss of the CGT, this Friday, April 14.
Pensions: the inter-union calls on Macron not to enact the reform
This Friday, shortly before the decision of the Constitutional Council which validated the vast majority of the pension reform, the Head of State Emmanuel Macron had invited the unions to a meeting on Tuesday April 18.
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Calls not to enact the law
The inter-union “solemnly request” Friday to the President of the Republic of “not enacting the law” reforming pensions, after the decision of the Constitutional Council to validate the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years.
“Faced with the massive rejection of this reform, the inter-union solemnly asks him not to promulgate the law, the only way to calm the anger that is expressed in the country”she wrote in a press release.
Pensions: the inter-union wants to continue the mobilization despite the validation by the Constitutional Council
Calling on employees to do May Day “a day of exceptional and popular mobilization against pension reform and for social justice”elle “decides (until then) not to accept meetings with the executive”she says.
“Today, the Constitutional Council censured 6 articles of the law. The few ambitions it contained on the employment of seniors, the right to information, the hardship for contract employees in the public service… have disappeared from the final text. While it was already unfair, the text of the law postponing the legal retirement age is now even more unbalanced”regret the eight main French unions as well as five youth organizations.
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The first rejected RIP
Noting that the Elders also rejected the first parliamentary initiative project aimed at organizing a Shared Initiative Referendum (RIP), the inter-union calls for the validation of the second RIP, which will allow “breaking the impasse through democratic consultation”. The Council must deliver its opinion on this RIP on May 3.
Pensions: what if Emmanuel Macron offered himself a way out with article 10 of the Constitution?
The intersyndicale also wants a “new deliberation” in Parliament, “as provided for in Article 10 of the Constitution, on the basis of consultation centered on labor issues”. “It would be a choice of wisdom and appeasement”she believes.
