Two waves of strikes, at the end of 2021 and early 2022, already focused on the question of wages.
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Eclipped since the start of the school year by worry around the flight prices and fears of electricity shortage, the strike of refiners has just put the question of wage increases on the scene . These last twelve months, it has never ceased to be a concern for workers, employees as civil servants, who have seen their purchasing power melt as inflation rose (5.6 % over a year in September).
This one, because it affects everyone, in all positions, at all hierarchical levels, has given all its meaning to the demand of a general increase in wages in companies, while this measurement had not ceased to retreat in recent years, in favor of individual increases, to merit.
She, at the same time, revived the strike as a collective mode of action, to create a balance of power in the company. Before, during, or after the compulsory annual negotiations (NAO), framework of discussions on wages and value sharing. And signed the return of conflict in businesses for a year.
New effervescence
There was a first wave of strikes in the fall of 2021: inflation, which takes off (2.6 % in October 2021), is the drop of water that overflows the vase for many already employees In need of recognition of the efforts made during the health crisis. The increases were very limited in 2020 and often frozen in 2021. Unpublished mobilizations in large largely beneficiaries, such as Decathlon or Leroy-Merlin, mark the spirits. And lead to generous bonuses and sometimes in revaluation of salary.
New effervescence in the spring of 2022, when inflation flies from 3.6 % to 5.8 % between February and June: even in companies where the NAOs gave rise to wage increases, none n ‘ reaches this level. Totalnergies employees thus obtained only 2.35 % general increase in February.
strikes and debraying then occur at Amazon, Thales, Dassault Aviation, in Conforama stores or Flunch restaurants, and in a multitude of SMEs or businesses of intermediate size. The NAOs go to Renault, Stellantis and Michelin. And in the banking sector where any general increase is refused, despite historical results.
Mobilizations weaken in the summer. Not inflation, which reached 6.1 % in July over a year, then 5.9 % in August. However, at the same time, the management of research, studies and statistics from the Ministry of Labor, notes that wages have increased on average only by 3 %. A higher, certainly, for ten years. But reported in constant euros, the basic monthly salary index has actually dropped all the more.
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