In an interview with the “Sunday Journal”, the Secretary General of the CFDT believes that the issue of purchasing power and wages is “central”.
Le Monde
Purchasing power is a “essential concern in the world of work [which] must become a subject in the countryside. Because it conceals another: the weakness of wages”, Judge Laurent Berger, in An interview in the Sunday newspaper, Sunday, January 23rd. According to the trade union leader of the CFDT, this question is “central”, especially because of “the rise of inflation and a growing weight of the expenses constrained”.
Regretting “a form of disconnection of the public debate, including media, with the reality experienced by the citizens and with the daily life of the workers in particular,” the Secretary General of the first French union considers that “the subject must the subject Beed up to the issue and the challenge, it is not to start a battle of figures on the revaluation of the SMIC “.
Aids paid to companies like” lever ”
Laurent Berger raises the question of “public aids paid to companies”, judging that the State “does not have to fill [their] deficiencies”. One of the ways to increase purchasing power would be, according to him, to “oblige the branches to increase their minimums within three months of a new increase in SMIC. Otherwise, there would be a financial penalty.” And add:
“What is the lever of the state? The conditionality of aids paid. It must also raise the value of the index point in the public service.”
In addition, asked about the assumption of presence in the second round of Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen against Emmanuel Macron, Laurent Berger responded that the CFDT will call “to vote Macron as in 2017. We will do it too If it’s pecresse, Jadot, Hidalgo or any other candidate who qualifies in his place, to counter the extreme right. “