The CGT, the FSU and Solidarity have left the meeting on the public service wages organized, Thursday, December 9, by the Government, which refuses a general reassessment of the point of index.
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“The medals and thanks do not pay out the rents.” It is on this disillusioned that solidarity and two other public service unions, the CGT and the FSU, slammed the door of the meeting on wages. that the Minister of Transformation and Public Function, Amelie de Montchalin, held on Thursday, December 9.
The stumbling point is still and always the general and immediate re-evaluation of the point of index, which would concretely increase to increase all public servants. All unions ask, recalling the mobilization of the public service during the health crisis. But M me of Montchalin explained to them that “all the conditions do not seem today together” for such a measure. On the one hand, because “the economic situation remains uncertain”; On the other hand, because it requires “a prior consultation of all public employers”.
The minister has promoted the measures announced in recent months. Thus, the 1.2 million category C officers will benefit from a revaluation, so that none of them are paid under the SMIC. She mentioned Ségur and the increase in wages of health personnel. She recalled that the agents whose treatment was less than 2,000 euros would affect “inflation indemnity” of 100 euros. It has finally promised that after the highest salary revaluation in October due to the rise in inflation, a new measure would be decided in the coming days.
The compensation mechanism of civil servants
But, said the minister, “Time is no longer at the technical adjustments of a blast system”. And she assured that the Conference on Salary Outlook continued. This cycle of discussions with the unions, launched on 19 September – and which must be completed in February -, aimed at thinking of the malfunctions of the officials’ remuneration mechanism. Once “the shared diagnosis” laid, the minister felt that “go faster and further” by opening “a salary negotiation. When ? In 2022, after the presidential election.
Not enough to satisfy the representatives of the agents. The CGT, the FSU and Solidarity announced, after leaving the Thursday meeting, “stopping their participation in the cycle of the salary conference”. Event, they point out, “whose legitimacy is well compromised by the lack of participation of organizations representing a majority of the staff”. Force Ouvrière had already announced his departure on November 16th.
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