Faced with the social movement initiated by the controllers, the executive has announced that it wanted to think about a “framework” allowing to ensure the continuity of public services.
by Claire Gatinois
Emmanuel Macron is “exasperated”. Once again, you could say. After his mood access to the slowness of the vaccination against the covid, the fuel shortages or the lonely outputs of ministers deemed too ambitious, it is the strike at the SNCF, about to spoil the Christmas holidays of some 200,000 French people, who paid the price for presidential anger. Inadmissible, the Head of State said, during the Council of Ministers on Thursday, December 22. This time, the government was not the direct target of the lightning of “Jupiter” but the unions and the SNCF softness took it for their rank. “We have a company that gets used to tolerating the strike,” he thundered.
To avoid, in the future, the blocking of trains during holidays, the phosphorus executive. To lengthen the deadlines required to file a notice of strikes is, in particular, a track under study. It would require a bill in order to modify the 2007 law on the minimum service. “We see that an essential public service like that of the train is struck almost overnight and impacts hard, unnecessarily and unfairly the life of many of our fellow citizens. This invites us to think about the framework to ensure all circumstances The continuity of access to public services, “explained government spokesperson Olivier Véran, after the Council of Ministers, regretting” that social dialogue is sometimes misguided “to serve as” standard for struggles individual “.
Such a device, which would significantly restrict the ability to strike, cannot however be implemented in the short term. It is also unlikely that the government is embarking on such a project, capable of making the unions leap, before completing the spiners pension reform, which will be presented on January 10, 2023.
In the immediate future, what except to share the rage of users? Decreeing requisitions would be illegal, warned the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune. And “it is not the government that negotiates with the strikers, we must not reveal everything. It is the SNCF which is a public company which is responsible for negotiating with the unions,” said Olivier Véran.
“Uberization of social dialogue”
Returning from an international tour that led him from the Blues locker room to Qatar to the side of the Dead Sea, in Jordan, for a conference on the stabilization of Iraq, passing by the Avions Charles de Gaulle, for the Christmas of the troops, the Head of State is all the more annoyed since he thought of living an end of the year without hitting. Was not the presentation of the pension reform, been shifted from December 15 to January 10, 2023 in the hope of more peaceful consultation with union organizations and oppositions? Las, it was without counting on the risk of “uberization of social dialogue” that observes Clément Beaune.
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