Updated at 12:30 p.m.
The unions return to Matignon at the start of next week in Matignon for their first interview with the executive since the use of 49.3 and the blaze of the social conflict around the pension reform.
After ten days of mobilization, the last of which was less followed and less chaotic than expected with 740,000 demonstrators throughout France, including 93,000 in Paris, the government is seeking to ease the tension. It is not certain that the inter-union hears it that way, it which plans an eleventh day of actions on April 6.
The CFDT says yes, the other unions pout
The date is not yet fixed between Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. ” We will go. We talked about it among ourselves. Yes, we collectively think that we have to go there to carry our proposals “confirmed Laurent Berger. The other unions reacted to the invitation with more reserve. ” We still need to discuss this in the inter-union “, tempered the co-delegate of Solidaires, Murielle Guilbert, just as François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC wishes” a discussion between us beforehand ».
It remains to be seen what subject the discussions will focus on. If Matignon has confirmed the invitation, the agenda is not known. ” What is certain is that we will go and discuss pensions. And work because it goes with it, but (especially) pensions! “warned Laurent Berger.
To talk about what?
For its part, the executive maintains that the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 will apply. Through the voice of Olivier Véran, its spokesperson, the government again dismissed at the end of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, the hypothesis of a pause in the application of the reform.
In the presidential camp, we find the same refrain with François Bayrou, president of Modem and High Commissioner for Planning, who maintains this Wednesday morning that “ the 64 years are in the text » et “that we can’t change lines at this point” but a slightly dissonant voice from the Minister Delegate for Industry Roland Lescure. During the interview next week, “there will necessarily be a conversation around pensions” more “we need to talk about other things”he estimated.
At Matignon, the meeting with the unions is part of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne’s desire to ” calm down “After ten days of urban riots and weakening of his government, as encouraged by the head of state. During a meeting on Monday with the executives of his majority and his government, Emmanuel Macron assured that he wanted ” continue to reach out to union forces “. Matignon wishes in particular to open the chapter following pensions, namely a consultation for a new labor law.
The unknown also relates to the position that the CGT will adopt around the table. Its 53rd congress in Clermont-Ferrand is held in a stormy atmosphere to decide on the succession of outgoing secretary general Philippe Martinez. The appointment of a new boss of the CGT could lead to a “more offensive” CGT like the blockages imposed by some of its federations in recent weeks, particularly in energy.
Decision of the Constitutional Council on April 14
The Constitutional Council will make public its decisions on the controversial pension reform on Friday April 14, ” at the end of the day “, according to a press release published on Wednesday. The Sages must rule on “two decisions” : the first on the constitutionality of the bill adopted in Parliament after an appeal to 49.3, and the other on the admissibility of the request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) launched by the left to challenge the reform.