laurent bergerleader of the first union in France, CFDTand a great protagonist in the social crisis that his country is experiencing due to the pension reform, has put on Wednesday Spain as an example to solve the crisis. He has considered that he is “a model” for the Willingness of the Government to negotiate with the centralsin a message addressed to President Emmanuel Macronwho yesterday refused a meeting.
“There is a true desire of the Spanish Government to dialogue with trade unions“, Berger pointed out in an interview with the France Info radio station. The general secretary of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT) referred to Spain when asked about the experimentation of the City Council of the city of Saint Ouen, bordering Paris, of a menstrual leave for women who suffer periods that incapacitate them.
He considered that “it is a good news let that taboo fall” about the pain caused by periods and said that this menstrual withdrawal device must be experienced as it has been done in Spain, which “is a form of model”.
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A model that in his opinion is explained by the attitude of the Government and that translates into that “Agreements are reached in Spaineven for complicated matters”.
The CFDT is a union of reformist traditionnormally involved in social negotiations with governments and employers’ organizations, with a different sensibility to that of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT, the second central in the country), more prone to fights and conflicts in the form of strikes.
However, given President Macron’s pension reform, which plans to delay the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 yearsthe CFDT, the CGT and the other six big unions have remained united in their unanimous rejection.
Berger’s statements also coincide with the pension reform that the Government of Sánchez is about to close. As reported by EL ESPAÑOL, Moncloa has practically secured a large majority to validate this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies the pension reform decree directed by the minister Jose Luis Escriva and that the Government claims to have agreed with Brussels.
