Elisabeth Borne will send invitations to unions “next week”

Elisabeth Borne will send invitations to the unions next week to try to renew the dialogue after months of tensions linked to the pension crisis , said Matignon this Friday. “Invitations will go out next week,” after the new mobilization day of May 1st told AFP the entourage of the Prime Minister, confirming information from franceinfo.

“It is ultimately through social dialogue that we provide good solutions for the benefit of employees”, argued the head of government, traveling to the Vélizy-Villacoublay (Yvelines) site of the engine manufacturer and aeronautical equipment manufacturer Safran to greet the recent signing of an agreement on senior employment that the executive is ‘committed to advancing’. “It is in this spirit that we will propose to trade unions and employers’ organizations to initiate a social agenda to prepare a new “work life pact” “, she added.

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This time, these meetings could take place bilaterally, and not with the entire inter-union, a way of trying to resume discussions more peacefully.

300 demonstrations on May 1

“We are going to talk about it in the inter-union on May 2 and we are going to decide together on the follow-up we will give”, reacted the new general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet , on the sidelines of a rally in front of the Ministry of Labor. “It all depends of course on the purpose of this meeting and its form”. “We are in a sequence which is the will of the side of Matignon to turn the page, but we are not there at all”, noted for his part on BFMTV Simon Duteil, co-delegate of Solidaires.

On April 5, the Prime Minister had invited the inter-union to Matignon, but this meeting did not allow a resumption of dialogue the trade unions once again recording a major disagreement with the government on the postponement to 64 of the legal retirement age.

United, the unions hope to mobilize m***ively against the pension reform, this Monday 1er May, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day. Some 300 demonstrations bringing together between 500,000 and 650,000 people are planned throughout the territory, according to a police source.

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