Indignity. Such is the feeling of Laurent Berger vis-à-vis the debates in the National Assembly. The secretary general of the CFDT denounced an “unworthy and shameful spectacle” given to the National Assembly.
Laurent Berger contrasted this “spectacle” with the “dignity of the world of work” which is expressed in the street. “What is expressed in the mobilizations is the dignity of the world of work (…) The government must hear this deep mobilization”, declared the secretary general of the CFDT on Europe 1. According to the latter, the next day of mobilization against the reform, March 7, will be “not the prolongation of the brothel which happened to the Assembly in the streets” but “the continuation of the trade-union movement, orchestrated and controlled by the trade-union organizations”.
A dignified and respectful mobilization
“We are calling to put the country on hold, which is different from a blockage. On March 7 we need a dignified and respectful mobilization but which goes up a notch, ”continued the leader of the CFDT. “I think the debate in the Senate will be more dignified. But then it will come back to the Assembly for a final vote and I say to the parliamentarians: “listen to what is happening in your constituencies”, because pensions are “not just a political subject”.
“Afterwards, if the government does not hear us, there will be deep resentment in the world of work,” warned Laurent Berger. “There will be no end of ‘sequence’,” he warned, referring to a term used by the government, before adding that “workers have no ‘sequence’. ” in their life, they live their work life over time. At the end of March they are not going to say to themselves ”the retirement sequence is over, we are moving on to something else”. »