Mediation on the pension reform? Véran sweeps away the inter-union proposal

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Olivier Véran swept away this March 28 the idea of mediation demanded by the inter-union on pensions

POLITICS – Barely formulated, immediately swept away. This Tuesday, March 28, just hours after the inter-union proposal to set up mediation on the pension reform, government spokesman Olivier Véran rejected this idea.

“We don’t necessarily need mediation to talk to each other”, swept away the government spokesman at the end of the Council of Ministers.

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The same morning, before the start of the 10th day of national mobilization, the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger had demanded ” a suspension of the project with, in parallel, a month-long, month-and-a-half-long mediation process ” For ” go to the different parties and ask them what they want on the job “. A request supported in the process by the secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez.

“We take Laurent Berger’s proposal to talk to each other, but directly. No need for mediationassured the spokesperson during the report of the Council of Ministers. “There is no mediator in the Republic when we can talk to each other directly”he insisted, after multiple reminders from the journalists present.

After Laurent Berger’s proposal, his CGT counterpart had indicated that the inter-union would formalize the request for suspension and mediation in a letter to the President of the Republic. The end of inadmissibility of Olivier Véran intervenes even before the sending of this missive.

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On the sidelines of a trip to Brussels on March 24, Emmanuel Macron had assured to be “at the disposal” of the inter-union. This, “as soon as the Constitutional Council has ruled on the conformity of our text of law”, said Olivier Véran on Monday. Subsequently, Elisabeth Borne made it known that she was available to receive the representatives of the power plants the week of April 10.

But the concerned refuse any meeting without certainty of being able to discuss the decline in the legal age of departure which crystallizes the anger. However, neither Emmanuel Macron nor Elisabeth Borne mentioned this specific point.

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