2023-06-26 23:05:00
“The calculations are not good”: several hundred “angry” clerks gathered in front of the courts of France on Monday to protest against a salary increase project deemed unworthy and to denounce the “contempt” of which their profession is, according to them, the object .
Initiated last week, this spontaneous mobilization was provoked by a project for a new index grid which will disadvantage the clerks, they believe.
After a mobilization across France, with in particular 250 clerks and their supporters mobilized in Lyon, between 150 and 200 before the Paris court or even a hundred in Marseille, the inter-union was received at the Ministry of Justice on Monday after noon, without obtaining any result.
Believing that no serious discussion on their claims had taken place, the UNSA Judicial Services, the CGT of the chancelleries and judicial services, SDGF-FO (Syndicat des greffiers de France) and the CFDT-Interco Justice regretted in a press release a common assessment “very insufficient and very laborious”.
“No particular announcement has been made, they gave us lip service to a calendar to discuss but it stops there”, explained to AFP Hervé Bonglet, secretary general of Unsa Judicial Services (majority) .
For its part, the Ministry of Justice welcomed “in-depth discussions”, affirming that it was “decided to establish a timetable which begins on July 4 with a meeting on the conditions of reclassification” and recalling that the remuneration clerks has increased in three years by 12%.
According to Hervé Bonglet, the inter-union calls for “a revaluation of the profession of clerks, underpaid in relation to their skills and everything they do”, considering that the recruitments planned in the minister’s latest project – 1,800 more clerks – will not be “not enough”.
“We are 11,000, it will take around 16,000 if we follow the standards of our European neighbors”, he believes while Cyril Papon, secretary general of the CGT of chancelleries and judicial services, denounces a “huge” workload. and rates of departures of clerks who “explode”.
Gatherings all over France
Several petitions had been addressed to the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, traveling with Emmanuel Macron in Marseille, where a hundred clerks and magistrates gathered in black robes at midday on the steps of the courthouse.
“Marseille is the third largest court in France and every day, between clerks and administrative assistants, we start with a staff where 50 people are missing”, explained to AFP Isabelle Fernandez, regional secretary UNSA Judicial Services, denouncing a volume of work “immense”.
Poster “Faced with contempt, anger” in hand, Bernadette Allione, clerk at the Marseille court, claims to have “seen the situation deteriorating” since its inception, regretting to see many colleagues leave this profession.
In Paris, there were between 150 and 200 clerks, some in robes, before the court, accompanied by magistrates and lawyers. “We have a lot”, “Stop the coaster”, “Angry clerks, without clerks, no justice”, could be read on their signs.
“It’s an unknown profession, but all the judicial machinery depends on the faith of clerks and administrative agents,” Carine, a 50-year-old clerk, told AFP.
“The calculations are not good”, “The eternal forgotten”, “Injustice in justice”, was it also written on the signs brandished on the steps of the Paris Court of Appeal, where around sixty people were gathered.
Elsewhere in the Paris region, around sixty people gathered in front of the Bobigny judicial court and around thirty in Evry.
In Lyon, around 250 clerks, according to the prefecture, also gathered, as in Bourg-en-Bresse where they denounced in a press release “institutional abuse”.
Gathering also in Rennes where around fifty clerks met at lunchtime: “we are the only category in the justice system that has not been upgraded, both in terms of salary and status”, said Laetitia in front of the demonstrators. Colombier, a clerk.
In Lille, a hundred clerks, administrative assistants and magistrates gathered in front of the courthouse. They were about fifty in Beauvais where they denounced in a letter “their disarray, their anger and the contempt of which they are regularly victims”.
26/06/2023 23:05:04 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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