The pension « conclave » reserves a last chance meeting on June 23 – Liberation
It arrived for a moment, in the evening of this Tuesday, June 17, when we believed well dead and buried, on an observation of failure, the « conclave » on the pensions of François Bayrou. But the Prime Minister’s creature, launched in February to allow social actors to revise the reform of 2023 while reaching the financial balance of the pension system in 2030, still moves. At least until Monday, June 23, date of what should, this time, be the real last session.
It is Jean-Jacques Marette, the former director general of complementary pensions of AGIRC-Arrco, a man experienced in social negotiations, who proposed what Christelle Thieffine, the leader of the CFE-CGC, calls the« Last Chance Operation ». Concretely, it will be a question of working on a text, written by the team of Jean-Jacques Marette, trying to make a final synthesis on the most crucial subjects of the discussion, which are the arduousness, the starting age and the financing of the regime. Or to act purely and simply the impossibility of an agreement.
If the failure appeared probable, it is because the union echoes which reached the press, over the day on Tuesday, told a complete locking of the discussions by the employers’ part, accused by Christelle Thieffine to want « Planting the Nego », But without assuming responsibility – in other words, while waiting for the unions that slam the door.
We were there, absorbing good
