LIVE – Pensions: Dussopt announces a meeting with the unions “this week or next week”

The government will propose a meeting with the unions “in the coming days,” said Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt at the microphone of BFMTV.

The invitation could go out to them as early as this week but “we’re not one day away,” he said. He said the meeting could take place “this week or next week”.

“I am very happy that a certain number of union representatives have said that they will be present,” he said before adding that he hopes that the CGT will come.

The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt acknowledged at the microphone of BFMTV that the pension reform “is an effort that is required” of the French.

However, he believes that this reform is “important” and necessary.”

Will this May 1st be historic? “We will see this evening how many demonstrators took part in these demonstrations”, procrastinates the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, considering that these are “traditional” demonstrations to which is added a desire of the inter-union to push on the challenge of pension reform

“I think this will not be the last mobilization,” said Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC, at the microphone of BFM Business, while the unions want to make this May 1 a “historic” day.

He adds that “there is no break within the inter-union which will continue to “fight together” for the withdrawal of the reform.

Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, explained on France Bleu Normandie this Monday morning that he wanted to “celebrate the work” and “pay tribute to the workers abused by the government” with his Nation Day this Monday in Le Havre.

For the first time, the RN will not pay tribute to Joan of Arc for May 1, but instead organizes a celebration which is intended to be patriotic.

On this new day of mobilization against the pension reforms that the unions hope will be historic, Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC said at the microphone of BFM Business that he still hopes for a withdrawal of the text.

“We continue to ask that this text be withdrawn or at least not applied,” he said.

The Minister of Labor, Full Employment and Integration is the guest of Benjamin Duhamel in the “Face to face” this Monday at 8:30 am on BFMTV-RMC.

On May 1, we don’t work. It’s a public holiday, a tradition: it’s International Workers’ Day. But since when? And why ? Céline Kallmann tells you the story of this date in the BFMTV podcast “Le titre à la une”.

His guest: Jean-Numa Ducange, professor of contemporary history at the University of Rouen Normandy and specialist in trade union movements.

If the Parisian demonstration on May 1 will not start before 2 p.m., other processions will start well before: this is the case in Rennes and Nantes, where departures are scheduled respectively at 10 a.m. and 10 a.m. 30.

The CFDT “will discuss” with the Prime Minister if she is invited to do so, despite the persistent disagreement on the pension reform and whatever the format envisaged, assured its secretary general, Laurent Berger, on Sunday.

Matignon said on Friday that Elisabeth Borne would send invitations to the unions next week to try to renew the dialogue, meetings which could take place bilaterally.

“If we have an invitation, we will go and discuss”, and this “in the format that it will decide”, indicated Laurent Berger, who was the guest of the LCI-RTL-Le Figaro grand jury, but with prerequisites “in in terms of method and in terms of substantive topics”.

The prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nunez indicated this Saturday on BFMTV to expect to see “several thousand ultra people at risk” on the occasion of May Day demonstration next Monday.

“Obviously we expect a lot of risky elements for May Day,” he said.

He evokes “several thousand ultra-at-risk people who will seek to fight it out, probably to break windows, attack the police and who will seek to prevent the union procession from progressing”, specifies-t- he.

>> Our article

While the unions hope for a historic mobilization against the pension reform this Monday, May 1, the Paris police headquarters asked for the closure of seven metro stations on the route of the procession.

The République station, from where the demonstration must start around 2 p.m., will thus be closed from 11 a.m. indicates the RATP. The trains of lines 3 5, 8, 9 and 11, which normally serve this station, will not mark the stop.

On lines 5 and 8, Oberkampf station will also be closed from the end of the morning. On line 9, the Saint-Ambroise, Voltaire, Charonne and Rue des Boulets stations will also be closed.

Line 8 will not stop at the Filles du Calvaire station either.

Guest of the LCI-RTL-Le Figaro jury this Sunday, April 30, Laurent Berger declared that “May 1st is going to be one of the biggest May 1sts on the social question of the last 30 or 40 years”, estimating that a million people are expected to move.

Earlier in April, the leader of the CFDT had called for “breaking the house” during the demonstration scheduled for May 1 for Labor Day, which will be an opportunity for the unions toshow their opposition to the pension reform.

“The CFDT will be neither in activism, nor in “punch” actions, nor in sending the workers into the wall by making them believe that the President of the Republic who promulgated this law withdraws it”, specifies however Laurent Berger.

New record broken. After crossing the three million euro mark at the end of Marchthe amount of the main kitty launched to support people on strike against the pension reform reached this weekend 4,022,338.03 euros, found BFMTV.

This sum represents more than half of the donations made to this solidarity fund since its opening in 2016 by union activists from Info’Com-CGT and Sud Postes 92.

>> Our article

Welcome to this direct dedicated to monitoring the political news of this Monday, May 1, 2023.