Prime Minister Jean Castex on September 2, 2020. – THOMAS SAMSON-POOL / SIPA
Objective jobs, relocations, prospect of a day of strike at the SNCF, pension reform… The Prime Minister swept aside a whole series of economic and social themes in an interview on RTL, this Thursday morning.
With this recovery plan of 100 billion euros, the Prime Minister Jean Castex says he hopes to create 160,000 jobs by 2021. “I hope that the recovery plan in 2021 will create 160,000 jobs. This is our goal, ”he told RTL. “To revive the economy and fight against unemployment, it is the priority objective of this plan”, he also assured.
Relocations in sight
To do this, the Prime Minister wishes in particular to relocate a number of companies. Also in order to be less dependent on foreigners. “We have selected a number of sectors where we are going to invest heavily so that we relocalisions or locate current or future activities ”, a underlined the Prime Minister at the microphone of RTL, evoking the fields of health or new technologies.
“We will give money to citizens to make thermal insulation. We are going to invest 6 billion in health. The objective is to give work to companies and therefore to the French, ”continued the Prime Minister.
On the strike, he calls for “accountability”
Asked by RTL on the day of strike scheduled for the SNCF on September 17, the Prime Minister called for accountability and dialogue. Jean Castex appealed to the microphone of our colleagues “in the sense of the responsibilities of each and every one” and asked to “advance the social dialogue”, in response to the strike notice filed for September 17 by the CGT-Cheminots, first SNCF union.
The notice filed by the CGT-Cheminots is part of a larger day of action launched by the CGT, joined by the FSU, Solidaires and youth organizations.
Finally, the last important subject addressed during this interview: pension reform. And it is with a half-hearted response that the Prime Minister confirmed that the government was not abandoning this reform, which had provoked at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 a major movement of protest. “We do not intend not to deal with the subject of pensions,” assured Jean Castex. While rejecting the hypothesis of an increase in the number of years worked.
“If we take measures to age or lengthen contribution periods in the current context, there is a consensus, even among employer representatives, to say that there will be negative consequences on employment. », He insisted on RTL.
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