why civil servants are on strike

by time news

2024-03-19 06:15:27

About Louise Darbon

Published yesterday at 6:52 p.m., Updated 10 minutes ago

A demonstration demanding higher wages for public service workers, September 29, 2022. Fiora Garenzi / Fiora Garenzi / Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect

DECRYPTION – All civil servants are called to mobilize this Tuesday to obtain pay increases, while no salary increase is planned in the public service in 2024.

The discontent is general. This Tuesday, March 19, all civil servants – hospital, local and state – are called by the eight trade union organizations representing the public service to strike and mobilize to demand salary increases.

Public officials in fact expect a blank year in 2024, without a salary increase. A prospect that is all the more realistic as billions of euros in savings have been announced by Bruno Le Maire. « We know that the economic context is tense, but it is not up to public officials to pay for budgetary savings », says Mylène Jacquot, general secretary of the CFDT-public service. Gold, « we are being given a refusal to accept revaluations for 2024annoys Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT. Since last June, we have been asking for a general increase and we have been told that the efforts have already been enormous, and that there is no budget for this year. »scolds the…

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