Eight employee organizations and five students of students and high school students must meet this Monday at the headquarters of the CFDT, in Paris, with a view to developing a collective speech towards the public authorities and employers.
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They continue to talk to each other, despite their differences. Monday, September 5, eight employee unions and five movements representing students and high school students are invited to meet at the CFDT headquarters in Paris. The agenda is generous and in direct contact with the big back -to -school files: remuneration, outbreak of energy prices, compensation for the unemployed, working conditions in businesses and educational establishments … The protagonists do not prepare Not the “big evening”, but seek to develop a collective speech towards the public authorities, employers and employers.
“This is the continuation of the discussion we had at the beginning of the summer,” explains Philippe Martinez, the secretary general of the CGT. An allusion to the exchange time between the thirteen organizations concerned, which ended, on July 12, with a common press release on the need for “a better sharing of wealth”. The initiative had caught attention, because it is very rare that all these actors are expressed in one voice. “It has never happened,” says Frédéric Souillot, the number one in FO. It has every interest in bringing this inter -union to live to show workers that their demands are defended. “In an interview with the world, dated August 31, Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT, had insisted on the importance of these exchanges, beyond the “differences on the strategy” which can exist between the power stations.
According to Mr. Martinez, Monday’s meeting aims to carry out “a round” on the “priorities” of the moment and on the “mobilizations” in progress, knowing that the CGT called for a national day of Action on September 29. Salaries continue to be “a major subject, despite the law” on the protection of purchasing power promulgated in August, he says.
“a form of wear”
The unemployment insurance reform, which aims to modulate the rights to an allowance according to the situation of the labor market, must also be addressed. All the participants in Monday are opposed to it, for substantive questions but also of method: the government intends to ask unions and employers to negotiate on this project, but it has already stopped the main principles future transformations. “We are allowed to examine the modalities, while we would like to be able to examine the change of philosophy of the system,” said Cyril Chabanier, the president of the CFTC.
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