2026 Budget: Opposed to Bayrou's announcements, the CGT calls for "mobilization"

By The New Obs with AFP

Published on July 16, 2025 at 9:10 a.m.

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CGT Secretary General Sophie Binet called for "mobilization" on Wednesday, July 16, following Prime Minister François Bayrou's announcement of cost-cutting measures to reduce the public deficit.

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"What is on the agenda is mobilization," Sophie Binet said on RTL . "The CGT will do everything to prevent these social regressions, to prevent them from coming into force," she stressed. "We will debate, within the CGT, with the other trade union organizations, how to defeat the government."

"We call on all workers who are shocked by these announcements to join unions and organize in their companies so that together we can mobilize at the start of the school year," she added.

The CGT leader also asked parliamentarians to "do everything to ensure that these measures are not implemented, because they are not only unfair, but dangerous for the country" , judging that "it is still the same people, the workers, who are paying the price, without the richest and the biggest companies being called upon to contribute" .

The Prime Minister "is preparing for us a general impoverishment of the country, a black year for workers. We will all, in concrete terms, lose hundreds of euros, or even more, next year, since prices will increase by an average of 1.7%, or even more, because school supplies, for example, have been announced at more than 10%, and on the other hand, not all services will follow suit," she explained.

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