In front of a thousand people, gathered at the CFDT call, Laurent Berger lamented that sectors, such as cleanliness, private security or hairstyle, did not benefit from salary increases.
Le Monde with AFP
They gathered Quai André-Citroën in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, before scrolling behind a banderle asking: “Dignity and Recognition for Essential Workers, for when?”
Hundreds of people – “More than a thousand people”, according to the organizers -, employees of the sectors of cleaning, cleanliness, private security, personal services, distribution, trade, from The hairstyle, funerary, health, social and medico-social sectors, agribusiness, or Category C agents of the public service, demonstrated, Thursday, February 3, to the CFDT call. These representatives of the “essential workers” who contributed to the smooth running of the economy to the highest health crisis gathered to claim salary upgrades.
“We are here to weigh the patronat of these different vocational branches and to public employers. Negotiations must be paid in all the professional branches, in all companies, for real wage upwards,” said Top of a truck The number one of the CFDT, Laurent Berger.
While some negotiations have resulted in substantial increases (+ 16% in the hotel sector, cafes, catering, + 5% among landscapers), Mr. Berger has castigated the “inert” sectors, such as cleanliness, Private security or hairstyle, facing the needs of employees.
Union Front divided
This mobilization of the CFDT intervened one week after a day of strike and demonstrations at the appeal of an Intersyndical CGT-FO-FSU-Solidaires, which brought together between 89,000 and 150,000 protesters in France. Asked about the “regret” expressed by some members of the CFDT that it was not attached to it, Mr. Berger stated that he did not want to register in “global logics where we do not know exactly what we CALLATION “. “Logics a little tote, it’s not for us,” he justified.
In the event, Lyes Berkane, 58-year-old security agent, brandished a sign on which was written “My sign is rotten, my salary too”. “Security agents live in precariousness (…) During the pandemic we have worked a lot, we even have employees who have died in hospitals (…) We try to get in negotiation, but employers do not want (… ) If there are no progress, the movement will harden, “he warned.
Gwenaëlle Monnier, union delegate at Auchan, 41, lamented the “promises” unwanted. “We were told that we were an essential trade, the population was nourished, and we are still not recognized” in terms of salary, “she said to the France-Presse agency.