Eight employee organizations and five youth movements released a text on Tuesday evening to try to weigh on the content of the bill relating to “the protection of purchasing power” that deputies are currently examining in committee.
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such a wide common front is rare enough to be reported. Tuesday, July 12, eight unions and five youth defense organizations disseminated a statement to demand “a better distribution of wealth for the benefit of employees”. The signatories of the text seek to make their votes heard, twenty-four hours after the start of the bill “for the protection of purchasing power” by three commissions of the National Assembly (Social Affairs, Economic Affairs and finances). The message is aimed at both employers’ leaders, who negotiate in professional branches, business leaders and public employers.
This call for rebalancing the sharing of profits is initialed by the five representative confederations at the interprofessional level: CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT and Force Ouvrière. Added to this is the FSU, Solidaires and the UNSA as well as movements representing students and high school students (Unef, Fage, Fidl, MNL, high school voice). Their approach aims to emphasize that the bill, currently debated by deputies, is insufficient “to respond to the emergency” because it results in “a succession of punctual measures and mainly funded by the State”. Priority must be given to “the increase in wages, pensions and pensions, social minima and scholarships”, in the eyes of the thirteen organizations.
“The minimum wage must remain a salary of Hiring “
These consider that the executive can contribute to a better consideration of this “central” issue by conditioning the public aid granted to private companies: it is “an imperative”, the aim being to “lead more concrete social and environmental policies “. This claim had already been defended by several unions during a meeting, on July 7, between Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor, and the Social Partners.
The authors of the text published on Tuesday also want to reaffirm that “the minimum wage must remain a job salary”. In other words, employers are invited to ensure internal promotions so that their employees do not remain assigned to this minimum remuneration for years. Wednesday morning, INSEE indicated that the minimum wage will be revalued again, as of 1 er August, so as to take into account the price progression. This increase – the fourth since October 2021 – should be very slightly more than 2 % and would bring the minimum wage to almost 1,330 euros per month, for full time.