Laurent Berger pleads for another “method” of social dialogue
After consultations and negotiations deemed disappointing by the trade unions, the secretary general of the CFDT hopes that the sequence of retirements will bring about profound changes in the method of social dialogue in France: “We do not want to arrive in a meeting room where we are says “that’s the project” and when we make our proposals, they are not appraised.”
“The method is for there to be debate and argument on the proposals made by the trade unions.”
“I’m not leaving because I’m angry”, insists Laurent Berger
At the microphone of France Inter, the union leader also returned to his recent announcement to leave the head of the CFDT in the coming weeks. “It is an internal decision at the CFDT, he underlined. […] It’s trying 10 years with this responsibility. I’m not leaving because I’m angry but because these are the deadlines of a collective organization.”
“It does not weaken the inter-union and I contacted my colleagues from the inter-union. We are in a country which has a problem of hyper-personalization.”
“The President had the opportunity to hear but he did not listen”, regrets Laurent Berger
Guest of France Inter, the secretary general of the CFDT deplored the attitude of the President of the Republic in the face of the social uproar: “When you hear, you have to listen. The President of the Republic has had the opportunity to hear but he did not listen.”
“What is expressed behind the noises of the pan is the anger of the world of work.”
Election of Macron as president: Aurore Bergé defends “a clear and clear choice of the French”
Emmanuel Macron has been “president for 6 years, he has been renewed, reappointed, there has been a clear and clear choice by the French”, declares Aurore Bergé on BFMTV-RMC.
The head of the Macronist deputies underlines that “it is quite rare in the history of the Fifth Republic, that a president is re-elected outside (period of) cohabitation (it was the first time, editor’s note)”.
Then, during the legislative elections, “the French did not choose to place us in cohabitation, they could have given a majority to others, they did not do it”, adds Aurore Bergé.
Still, the Macronist camp is only in a position of relative majority. This prompted Elisabeth Borne, failing to find compromises, to trigger 49.3 11 times to pass three texts without a vote of the deputies.
Aurore Bergé: “Appeasement is not isolation”
Guest of BFMTV-RMC, Aurore Bergé returns to Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Bas-Rhin on Wednesday, where the president was heavily whistled and arrested. This even, while the latter opened a period of “100 days of appeasement”.
“Appeasement is not isolation, the President of the Republic it is normal for him to come into contact with the French”, defends Aurore Bergé, patron saint of Macronist deputies.
“I think he expected it to be difficult. That’s also why he’s going there.”
“He is the president of all the French” including “those who disagree with us on this reform”, adds the deputy of Yvelines.
According to François Patriat, the pension reform shows “two Frances”
Guest of Public Senate, François Patriat returns to the trip of Emmanuel Macron to the Bas-Rhin, during which the latter was heckled. For him, the sequence represented “two Frances”.
The first is characterized according to him by the company Mathis, specialized in wooden construction, to which the president visited. He praises “a company that innovates and builds, creates jobs, wealth”.
The other “France” theorized by the boss of Macronist senators is the one who heckled Emmanuel Macron, between whistles and arrests. She is the one who “knocked against saucepans”.
François Patriat continues by distinguishing a “France which works”, from another which manifests “week after week by proposing only one thing: the withdrawal of the text”.
Macron’s trips: Guedj sees it as an opportunity for the president to “take the exact measure” of the “rejection of his reform”
Guest of Radio J, the socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj speaks about the return to the field of Emmanuel Macron, present in the Bas-Rhin yesterday and expected in the Hérault today.
What does the elected representative of Essonne think of these trips?
“So much the better if it allows him to take the exact measure of the level of rejection of the policy he is pursuing and of his pension reform,” he replies.
While criticizing a head of state who gives the feeling of wanting to “step over” this subject, “as if nothing had happened”.
Emmanuel Macron intends to invite the unions back “during May”
Emmanuel Macron assured that he would invite the social partners back “in May” and promised, in an interview on Wednesday with regional newspapers of the Ebra groupthat the compromises found between employers and unions would be “faithfully transcribed” into law.
After the “disagreement on pensions”, Emmanuel Macron wished that the social partners “come back around the table” on the subjects “of the pact of life at work”.
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Macron booed in Alsace: these previous tense exchanges between the president and the French
The President of the Republic, who was counting on his trip to the Bas-Rhin to turn the page on the pension reform, was copiously booed and arrested by French people who came to welcome him. The head of state is not in his first tense exchange during walkabouts.
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“I don’t despise anyone”: in the face of criticism, Emmanuel Macron charges the extremes
“I always tell the truth to the French.” Interviewed in the columns of newspapers of the EBRA press groupTo the occasion of his trip to the regionthe President of the Republic again affirmed that he had “heard” the protests against the pension reform.
In this interview carried out on the plane to Alsace, where the president was repeatedly booed and hissed, Emmanuel Macron took the opportunity to charge the opposition. “Who today is respectful? Those who in the National Assembly make the hubbub when the Prime Minister comes to speak?”, He chained, referring to the announcement of the use of 49.3 to push through the pension reform without a vote in the National Assembly.
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Macron and ministers’ travel disrupted even after pension reform enacted
Boos, whistles, pans, arrests … For his first trip since the promulgation of the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron was strongly heckled. And he is not the only one among the members of the executive to find himself confronted with the protest movement.
Christophe Béchu, Jean-Christophe Combe Sylvie Retailleau, François Braun… several ministers had the right to tense receptions.
Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions, had to cancel a conference scheduled for Thursday in Dijon. The reason: “proven serious threats of trade union origin and in connection with the movement against pension reform”, according to Renaissance deputy Didier Martin.
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“I will have to seize it”: Macron does not rule out resorting to the referendum, without specifying on which subjects
“Our citizens want to be more involved in decisions.” In an interview given to Ebra Group NewspapersEmmanuel Macron has not ruled out resorting to a referendum by the end of his five-year term, without specifying for what themes.
“The referendum is a tool and I will have to seize it for subjects that I will choose”, he assured our colleagues.
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Emmanuel Macron goes to Hérault to talk about education
The day after a turbulent day when he was booed by demonstrators, Emmanuel Macron on Thursday continued his enterprise of “appeasement” of the country with a trip to Hérault devoted to education.
The Head of State is expected at the end of the morning at the Louise-Michel college in Ganges, one hour north of Montpellier, where he will meet with teachers, students and parents of students.
For this trip dedicated to preparing for the start of the new school year in September, he will be accompanied by the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye and the Secretary of State for Veterans and Memory Patricia Mirallès.
The ambition is clear, underlines the Elysée: “to change our school to” reconnect with the ambition of being one of the best in Europe “. Which could result, according to several macronist sources, in announcements on the remuneration of teachers, expected for several weeks by the educational community.
“Railway anger”: what actions in stations?
In reaction to the promulgation of the pension reform, the four representative unions of the SNCF call for a “day of expression of the angry railwayman“This Thursday, April 20, a day presented as a “preparatory stage” for the May Day demonstrations.
In addition to disruptions in train traffic (the forecasts will be known on Tuesday evening), the unions intend to carry out media actions in several major French stations.
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to this live dedicated to the social arm wrestling around the pension reform. Promulgated by Emmanuel Macron 5 days ago, a few hours after the green light from the Constitutional Council, the text still arouses disputes.
This Thursday, the four representative unions of the SNCF call for “a day of expression of railway anger”. This action is presented as a “preparation stage” for the May Day demonstrations.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron seeks to demonstrate that he is in contact with the French and not prevented by his very unpopular reform. He is going to Hérault, after a trip to Alsace on Wednesday.