Labor law: the “reformist” unions are trying to mobilize – Le Parisien

S ‘i the government does not hear us, we are ready to show our determination (…) and we will have no qualms to mobilize in the streets, “warned the number a CFDT Laurent Berger. “The time for dialogue is over, it’s time for decisions,” he said, along with leaders of the UNSA, CFTC, CFE-CGC and Fage (students) , at a gathering of several hundred people Saturday afternoon, Place de la Republique in Paris. “If we are not heard, we will use all means to make the government”, he insisted, without excluding joint mobilization with opponents more radical text that provide a new event on 31 March. “We will discuss it internally.” “We must reject this liberal orthodoxy that wants to hire more, you have to have to lay off more easily,” Mr. Berger has rechéri. The rallying of the CFDT project seems essential, but its general secretary put the record straight, “it is the government that bears the law”

For the secretary general of the UNSA Luc Berille. “this text urgently needs rebalancing in favor of employees.” If Monday there is “only marginal adjustments, it is in the street and mass that we found.”

Carole Cloudy, President of the CFE-CGC the same language, “Yes, we will study the demonstration of 31 March if we are not heard.” “This text is a gift to employers. It is the old hobby of employers, facilitate dismissals “. The President of the CFE-CGC has been threatened via sms by the president of Medef, the latter referring to no longer support it if it persists in its opposition to El Khomri bill. .

“A thorough rewriting of the text”

The reformist unions want to get “a thorough rewriting of the text, completely unbalanced,” according to them, and deem unacceptable points: cap prud’homales allowances, new criteria for redundancy or increase the unilateral power of the employer in terms of the organization of working time. But they do not ask the outright withdrawal of the bill, unlike the trade unions and students have mobilized Wednesday more than 220 000 people, according to police, 500,000 according to organizers.

The gatherings or simple distribution of leaflets were also organized in a hundred cities in the region. They were 300 in Rennes, a few dozen in Lille, Toulouse or Bordeaux, twenty Marseille to pull and talk with passersby, noted journalists from AFP.

Prime Minister meets with the Minister of Labour Myriam El Khomri and Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, social partners and student organizations Unef and Fage, Monday at 14:30, at Matignon, to reveal their intentions. A new day of strikes and demonstrations is 31 March, at the call of seven trade unions (FO, CGT, Solidaires, FSU), students (UNEF) and students (Fidl, UNL). Youth organizations are planning to march on 17 March.