Will the executive succeed in relaunching social dialogue? The unions are expected this Tuesday and Wednesday at Matignon for the first time since the promulgation of the highly contested pension reform, which could place them "in a position of strength" in negotiations.

After a meeting with the inter-union at the beginning of April that had been cut short, Elisabeth Borne receives this time each of the five representative organizations, without a precise agenda. The Prime Minister, regularly heckled by the pots and pans of opponents of the reform, says she is "listening to the priorities" of trade unions and employers' organizations.

The "determined" inter-union on pensions

While she blows Tuesday her first candle in Matignon, receiving Monday a satisfaction of Emmanuel Macron for his action, she will meet in the late afternoon with FO and the CFDT. Then Wednesday morning with the CFE-CGC and the CFTC, before the CGT in the afternoon.

The tug-of-war promises to be still intense. The inter-union has indeed reiterated Monday in a statement its "determined" opposition to the pension reform, against which it organizes a 14th day of strike and demonstrations on June 6, two days before the examination of a bill of the Liot group to repeal it.

The unions come especially to Matignon with many demands and could raise the stakes. In the context of inflation, they hear about wages, and repeat that they consider "unfair and brutal" the degressivity of unemployment benefits or the conditionality of access to the RSA.

All unions are also demanding that public aid to companies be "conditional" on social objectives, such as wage increases, and environmental objectives. The CFDT will request a suspension of contribution exemptions for branches that have minima below the minimum wage. The CGT, which comes, in the words of its N.1 Sophie Binet to the Parisian "to make demands", "to negotiate, not to discuss", wants an indexation of wages on the rise in prices. The president of the CFTC Cyril Chabanier believes for his part that "we can not not talk about inflation, purchasing power". Above all, he believes that the unions are "in a position of strength thanks to the social movement".

OUR DOSSIER ON PENSION REFORM

In addition to the employment of seniors or arduousness, all subjects rejected by the Constitutional Council, the Prime Minister intends to build with the social partners a "social agenda" for a "new pact of life at work". A bill, "which will embark the result of negotiations" between unions and employers, should be tabled at the end of the year or early 2024, according to Matignon.

The employers' organisations, which will be received next week, would have preferred autonomous negotiations with the unions before seeing the government. The MEDEF regularly highlights their agreement on the sharing of value.

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