Insensitive to the protests of the street, blind before the unanimity of the unions, truncating the parliamentary debate, the government plans to want to impose a pension reform which even its supporters no longer discern neither the meaning nor the breath or the breath . Emmanuel Macron saw the jewel of his assessment: it will be his ball.
We do not oppose dogmatism. That it is necessary to adapt because life expectancy increases, that our relationship to work evolves, that our finances are fragile … Everyone understands it. But we oppose this project because it is illegitimate, unfair and ineffective.
illegitimate when the President of the Republic forgets that millions of French people voted for him on April 24, 2022, not for his ideas, but to counter the extreme right. It had to force him, he sits on it. Unjust because imposing 64 years would not change anything for the most privileged, but everything for the first of chores: nurses, home aid, auxiliaries of life, ripeurs, cleanliness agents, large distribution employees, agricultural workers or construction … These examples of courage tell us that work must remain a value of dignity. Also unfair because the financing of the project is based exclusively on the shoulders of workers.
an illusion
Inefficace finally, because backing up the legal age will not solve anything as long as the employment of 60-64 year olds will remain as low in France (33 % against 60 % in Germany). The article of law on this subject has also been dryly rejected. Not to mention the hidden costs of the project on health insurance, nor the negative consequences on volunteer work.
So what to do? The left is right to oppose, in support of unions and social forces. But to beat the right, it is not enough to beat the pavement. In the assembly, the obstruction has shown its limits, excessive its unworthiness. From the left we love, we wait for her to draw a course and explain how to reach it.
With honesty: if we access power, do we really do 60 years old, 40 contribution annuities for all? It’s less a horizon than an illusion. Its exorbitant cost would deprive the state of vital means for other public policies: health, education … In 2012, we allowed full -rate retirement from 60 years for long careers. But would a single stake for all be really fairer, when everyone obviously does not reach 60 years in the same health?
So do we need a status quo? We do not think so. A real leftist reform is possible. We include it in a broader political project, which places the social utility of trades in its heart and offers new emancipation through work. Around four simple principles.
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