Pensions: Sophie Binet thinks it’s “irresponsible to want to apply reform on 1 September”

“We are not asking for the resignation of this government, but for the abolition of the pension reform. “Four days before voting on the law proposed by the Lyot group, which could abolish the reform of the retirement age at 64, CGT General Secretary Sophie Binet continues her media marathon.

While the Committee on Social Affairs rejected in its preliminary consideration an article of the law that would allow trade unions to start from scratch, the President of the National Assembly has the right to re-include it in the text to be discussed in the semi-cycle.

“Yael Braun-Pivé has not yet answered me, I must call her through the press, very solemnly, so that she receives me. When you are President of the National Assembly, you must respect the prerogatives of Parliament,” Sophie Binet defended this Sunday in BFM Politique in collaboration with Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France, who “believes that parliamentarians want to vote for” this law and that “this vote should take place in the plenary” and not just in the committee.

Otherwise, “we will continue to ask parliamentary groups to continue to introduce repeal laws.”

Two days before the law is to be considered by deputies, the unions are calling for a new day of demonstrations on Tuesday June 6, the fourteenth mobilization since the start of discussions on pension reform. To apply pressure, “Intersyndicale will hold its press conference right before the Assembly,” she said.

“Let’s start from scratch”

“There is still time to put the reform on hold to start from scratch,” especially, she refers to the fact that “technically, it’s completely irresponsible to want to implement the reform on September 1st.” The first decrees to implement the reform were published in the Official Journal, but according to successor Philippe Martínez, more than thirty others have yet to be published, creating “substantial uncertainty”. “In the funds, agents work in a forced march, the restoration of the careers of the relevant employees is carried out in unsatisfactory conditions,” which leads to “erroneous calculations” of pensions.

The cautious head of the CGT did not give an estimate of the number of people who could be mobilized on Tuesday. The authorities are counting on 400-600 thousand people in 250 rallies, including 40-70 thousand in the capital. “This June 6 will be what we make of it,” she said. I call on everyone for mass mobilization, this is what will make it possible to be heard in the National Assembly,” she unfolds, recalling a slogan that is broader than abolition. Negotiations should be open in all industries to “put real issues on the agenda, salaries, ecology,” she lists.