Wages, organization of work, seniors… What the unions will ask Élisabeth Borne

2023-05-16 12:01:07

From Tuesday May 16 in the early evening to Wednesday May 17 afternoon, the leaders of the five representative unions will be received at Matignon by Élisabeth Borne. If the Prime Minister hopes to turn the page after the pension crisis, union officials will not budge and will ask, unanimously, for the withdrawal of the pension reform.

Beyond this common base, the various unions also have demands, in particular on purchasing power or the conditionality of business aid. But, from this common base, each one will insist on the points which seem to him priorities.

► Tuesday, May 16, 6:15 p.m.: Frédéric Souillot, General Secretary of Force Ouvrière

“We will insist on wage increases”explained the secretary general of FO to the Tribune, recalling that, if the minimum wage actually follows inflation, it is all the pay scales that are settling. A phenomenon that also affects the civil service (where FO came out on top among civil servants): today, a category C civil servant will stay ten years at the minimum wage level before his seniority allows him to see his treatment progress…

“The state should unfreeze the index at the height of inflation”believes Frédéric Souillot, who also wishes “a change in method and consultation” and wants to return to the work orders of 2017 “who have damaged the representation of employees in companies”.

► Tuesday, May 16, 7:30 p.m.: Laurent Berger, Secretary General of the CFDT

“We will tell the Prime Minister to fix what she hasa little damaged in the world of work »declared the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, Tuesday morning on France 2. He will focus in particular on the question of the organization of work, which he wants to do “a mandatory subject of negotiation in companies”. « Employees are fed up that they are never consulted on the way they do their work”he summarizes.

“This is a subject that we have been working on since the 1970s and which affects many things: the four-day week, the relationship between professional and personal life, the universal time savings account, the organization of collective work…”explains to The cross Marylise Léon, Deputy Secretary General of the CFDT who also wishes to review the 2017 work orders, particularly with regard to occupational health and staff representatives.

► Wednesday, May 17, 10:45 a.m.: François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC

« We want the government to stop always modifying unemployment insurance or the RSA”explained the president of the CFE-CGC, François Hommeril, to the Tribune. He battles in particular against the latest reform of unemployment insurance, which has implemented the degressivity of unemployment insurance for those whose gross monthly salary exceeded 4,700 €, managers for a good part.

“We must come back to this idea of ​​linking labor market conditions and unemployment benefits. It’s counterproductive.”believes François Hommeril, “shocked” by the amount of aid to companies and which calls for conditioning it, in particular “to the obligation to really do what is necessary to no longer lay off seniors”.

► Wednesday, May 17, 12:00 p.m.: Cyril Chabanier, President of the CFTC

The president of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier, explained Tuesday morning on Public Senate that he will insist on purchasing power. But he also wants us to come back to some of the subjects which, in the pension reform, have been censured by the Constitutional Council, in particular those relating to “the employment of seniors, hardship and retraining”.

“In some jobs, it’s good to leave two years earlier, but there are also some that you can’t practice for twenty years: there should be an obligation to retrain for these difficult jobs”says the president of the Christian union.

► Wednesday, May 17, 5:00 p.m.: Sophie Binet, General Secretary of the CGT

“We want to talk of the real demands of employees on the question of wages, the improvement of working conditions and the reduction of working hours”summarized Tuesday the secretary general of the CGT, Sophie Binet, at the Parisian where she also says « non » the degressivity of unemployment benefits and the “the conditionality of the RSA” that she sees taking shape through the establishment of France Travail.

In the TribuneSophie Binet also announces that she will ask for the “conditionality of business aid”, “withdrawal of work orders”and in particular the end of “Macron scale” on severance pay and “the prohibition of collective contractual terminations”.