Pension reform. The inter-union is preparing for “a long fight”: what is planned in Toulouse
Through Quentin Marais
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Pension reform keep talking. In Toulouse and Haute-Garonne, a first mobilization has already been acted upon by various organizations meeting as an inter-union, on Thursday January 12, 2023. A way of preparing for what the latter calls “a long fight”.
A first for a decade
In the premises of the Toulouse Labor Exchange, this Monday, January 9, 2023, the CGT, FO, the CFDT, the CFE-CGC, FSU and Solidaires met in inter-union. “Against the pension reform project, the mother of battles”, is it written on the paper which presents their mobilization. But also their union, strong in symbol.
union representatives, Cedric Caubre (general secretary CGT 31), Serge Cambou (general secretary FO 31), Alexandra Nougarede (co-secretary general FSU 31), Benoit Dupuy (Solidaires 31), Marie Line Brugidou (president CFE-CGC Occitanie) and Herve Aussel (Deputy Secretary General CFDT 31) struggled to find the trace of such a common synergy, in Haute-Garonne. « 2010 ? Or 2012…”, they thought, smiling.
Government in sight
Pension reform is therefore in the sights of this inter-union. “Employees are fed up with these reforms which always go in the same direction, plague Cédric Caubère. For the State, a part of the stake, it’s to steal the social security budget to use it for something else. It would seem that no one has understood in this country that employees are in great pain. »
Serge Cambou also charges the government. “He found a subject on which we unanimously league against him… He got us all right, he couldn’t do better, he reacts. It takes up a pension reform which is except for everything justified, in particular on the economic level. »
“The government is surprised to see that the management is mobilizing. But the management, it has its back full. Macron has only ceased to destroy jointism. It is something that works well, so it must general… Extending the retirement age to 65 is unacceptable for us, it is not based on anything, just like the duration of contributions, it is also unacceptable . “
“All the proposals that have been made to the government on hardship, long careers, transitions, end of career: he took nothing into account. He is deaf, or else he listens but does not hear, which is much more dramatic”, castigates Hervé Aussel.
For his part, Benoit Dupuy draws several figures, explaining that ” 25% of workers the poorest died before the age of 65. In 2022, pension funds were in surplus by €3.2 billion. These crates are crushed, eaten in small pieces to fill other holes elsewhere”.
“Retirements will not pass”
The first week of 2023 had already been canceled by debates and exchanges on the subject. Alexandra Nougarède says: “we said it again on Friday January 6 at the end of the meeting with the Minister of the Public Service: ‘pensions will not pass‘. We remain in the fight, in the street and whatever it takes to bend Macron’s government.
“Tuesday, January 10, Elisabeth Borne will present her project, but she has already received our trade union organizations last week: everyone left annoyed of the national meeting”, adds Cédric Caubère.
No demonstration on Thursday
In concrete terms, what will happen in Toulouse and Haute-Garonne on Thursday January 12?
“Starting from there, we, without waiting, in Haute-Garonne, we scheduled a first day of unitary action against pensions, in public and private companies, on January 12. We are organizing a distribution of leaflets. The idea is to send a signal. We didn’t decide to hold a demonstration because we think that retirement is a work issue, first and foremost.”
If there will be no protestin Toulouse or in the department, Thursday January 12, 2023, the inter-union should very soon note another day in the calendar.
A meeting of the various confederations will take place on Tuesday 10 January. At the end of this, ” we know the date of the first day of mobilization”, announces Serge Cambou.
And to Cédric Caubère to conclude, unequivocally: “This January 12 is a way of prepare for a long fight“.
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