A contact to assess each other. Since Tuesday January 16, Gabriel Attal began to receive, in turn, the main union and employer officials. The new head of government thus concretizes his desire to quickly meet the “living forces of the country”despite a small “hiccup” linked to first meetings which he had finally canceled shortly after taking office.
This series of interviews has, at this stage, not provided much information on the vision of the tenant of Matignon, who must deliver his general policy speech to the National Assembly on January 30. He was able to get an idea of the state of mind of his interlocutors, each of them having reeled off a long list of grievances.
From these times of discussion, a unanimous observation emerged: Mr. Attal seeks to show respect for the social partners. “He seemed attentive to our subjects”relates Marylise Léon, the general secretary of the CFDT. “He wanted to show that he was open”, echoed by Sophie Binet, the leader of the CGT. He assured “believe in social dialogue”completes Frédéric Souillot, the leader of FO.
Employers abound. “I find that receiving employer and employee organizations before his general policy speech is a good signal”, declares Patrick Martin, president of Medef. His counterpart from the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises, François Asselin, found that Mr. Attal was ” caring ” : “He was there to listen to us and make him one of our priorities. »
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The atmosphere therefore seems to have been rather cordial, which did not prevent the protagonists from speaking to each other frankly. “I started by telling him that Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term was a social, economic, democratic and environmental disaster”M ratioMe Binet. The general secretary of the CGT also demanded “a change of hat”on the “affectionate” and in terms of ” method “so “to work differently” with the unions.
On several issues, employee organizations have displayed their disagreements with the executive’s action. MMe Léon, for example, expressed his concern about the reform of the civil service, which should give greater place to “deserves” in the remuneration of agents, as Mr. Macron indicated during his press conference on Tuesday at the Elysée. “It is not possible to learn the content of a project before consultations with the unions have taken place”she is indignant.
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