On the announcement of the “failure” of negotiations on the pension reform, the Prime Minister invited the social partners to meet him on Tuesday to find a “crossing route”. Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC, will respond to “act the disagreement and perhaps also explain it”.
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“The only way that there can be an agreement in the future is that, during this meeting, the Prime Minister has the employers bend”, reacted Tuesday, June 24 on Franceinfo Cyril Chabanier, President of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC). According to him, the responsibility for the failure of the conclave on pensions is clear to the employers. “It’s a shame to have had such a closed employers who played a game that is incomprehensible”, he adds.
The union leader specifies that the negotiation process is now closed. “One thing is certain is that the conclave is finished. There will be no other negotiation meetings. Now, either the employers change their minds and accepts the modifications, at that time, obviously an agreement is possible, or the employers do not move, and at that time, the disagreement will be total”Exhibits Cyril Chabanier. He insists on the final character of the situation: “We are at the end. We made proposals, we made a lot of concessions”.
For Cyril Chabanier, the ball is now in the government’s camp. “The only means which is an agreement in the future is that the Prime Minister forces the hand of employers and that employers accepts advances on arduousness and mothers and on the age of cancellation of the discount”. The patron of Medef, Patrick Martin, assures his side that “Negotiation has bought on long careers”.
The president of the CFTC expresses his regrets on the possibility of an agreement which could have improved the situation of hundreds of thousands of employees while guaranteeing the financial balance of the system by 2030. “Honestly, compared to the Prime Minister’s mission letter which has been improved, the Borne law while having balanced accounts for 2030, we had a text that met these conditionsregrets Cyril Chabanier. The agreement could be possible “.
“We had both managed to improve the situation of hundreds of thousands of employees and to have roughly balanced accounts by 2030.”
Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTCin franceinfo
Cyril Chabanier will go to Matignon at the invitation of François Bayrou. “Of course, we’re going to go. We are Republicans at the CFTC. So when the Prime Minister invites us, we go”he said. “I think it’s already important to go there to activate the disagreement that we had last night, maybe also explain it”he adds.
