2023-07-12 07:07:12
By Thomas Engrand
Posted 2 hours ago, Updated 29 minutes ago
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Social organizations hope that this meeting will lead to concrete progress on the social agenda.
After the words place the actions. 48 hours from the end of the 100-day period that the Head of State had set to give impetus to the country, the social partners are received at Matignon this Wednesday, July 12. If the Prime Minister had already received the unions bilaterally in mid-May to open a new chapter after the conflicting pension file, this new meeting, multilaterally and with employers, aims to lead to concrete results. “We want answers to the questions asked mid-May“Says from the outset Marylise Léon, the new general secretary of the CFDT. “We want concrete“, abounds Boris Plazi, member of the office of the CGT.
The day after the sequence of retirements, the government indeed promised that it would put work at the heart of the discussion and that on these issues, it did not intend to move forward without the social partners. But the subjects are not lacking. Representatives of employers and workers agreed last week on a busy social agenda, even if no surprises emerged. Among other things, we find the question of the employment of seniors, the universal time savings account as well as follow-up projects for several past agreements.
The social partners hope to see more clearly on the issues that will remain the exclusive preserve of employers and unions – the agenda says “autonomous– and those subject to a government framework letter. The latter thus wonder about the room for maneuver for negotiation left by the executive. “We want real social democracy“Warns Marylise Léon. The question arises in particular for unemployment insurance, for which a new agreement must be signed before the end of 2023. In order to be able to start discussions, the joint bodies have been calling for this framework letter for a long time. The executive says he is aware that time is running out. The document should also leaveend of July“, we assure Matignon.
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Resolve disagreements
Still, on other subjects, unions and employers have failed to agree. Starting with the question of wages. Employers do not want to hear about any interprofessional obligation. On the contrary, they consider that the decision must be made within each company, according to its capacities, even at branch level. On the employee representative side, it is believed that this type of negotiation does not always make it possible to move forward quickly enough. As proof, according to them, the number of branches which have one or more minima under the SMIC. “The employers don’t want to hear anything, so we want the intervention of the police», Supports Boris Plazi, of the CGT. At the CFDT, we still hope to see the emergence of “an incentive to negotiate“, underlines the number one. And to cite, among the avenues proposed, the conditionality of public aid.
Unsurprisingly, the points of agreement remain numerous between the unions, but it is out of the question to speak of an inter-union. “We have discussions but we carry the subjects separately“, points out Boris Plazi. Same story on the reformist side: “We did not prepare the meeting togetherconfirms Marylise Léon.
In addition to these many subjects, this meeting will also be the opportunity to see several new faces gathered together for the first time within the social landscape. Thus the number one of the CGT, Sophie Binet, will be accompanied by Marylise Léon, who took the reins of the CFDT on June 21 and Patrick Martin, who was elected on July 6 at the head of the Medef. The latter will however be accompanied by his predecessor Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, who will participate in his last multilateral. The end of an era and the beginning of a new one.
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