Gabriel Attal is increasing the pressure. The Minister of Public Accounts raised his voice on Saturday against the unions who wish to put “France at a standstill” on Tuesday against the pension reform. On the sidelines of a visit to the Salon de l’Agriculture, Attal called on opponents of the reform to “responsibility” and “get out of hypocrisy”.
“When I hear officials explain that they want to block France, in reality it is the French that they are going to block. When I hear some who say they want to bring the economy to its knees, it is the workers they are going to bring to its knees,” he castigated.
Strikes will penalize “those who toil”
According to Attal, the strikes for certain renewables which will affect key sectors of the economy such as transport, will penalize “those who toil, that is to say the French who have to get up in the morning, take their metro, their RER, their car to go to work”. “White collar workers in general can telecommute, they can cycle to work because they live not far from their work. Those who struggle the most when there are blockages are the French who work the hardest, that’s why I call for responsibility, ”he added to journalists.
“Our door has always been open, is always open to exchange with the trade unions and moreover there is work in progress in parliament (…) precisely to take into account the concerns, the worries, the doubts”, he added. he completed. Thursday, during a public debate organized near Saint-Etienne with several union officials, the N.2 of the CFDT Marylise Léon had said: “The idea is not to block France it is to block this reform “.