The trade unions are asking for an increase in wages but also for more resources and “a relaxation of the timetable for the deployment of the action plans in progress”.
It may be difficult to discuss with his Pôle emploi adviser on Tuesday. All the agents are called to walkout by the ten trade unions of this public service.
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The CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT, FO, SNAP, SNU, STC, SUD and the UNSA had indeed filed a notice on January 7 calling for a strike for February 1. In a press release, the organizations ask on the one hand “a general increase in remuneration” who should be “significant and urgent”. At the center of the concerns of the strikers, as for many French people, are indeed price increases and the question of purchasing power. The unions also justify this demand for a raise as a sign of “recognition of the professionalism of their agents, their responsiveness since the start of the health crisis” as well as “purchasing power lost for more than 10 years”.
More resources
Other demands motivating this Tuesday’s movement: “A relaxation of the schedule for the deployment of the action plans in progress” and “all the means necessary for the exercise of our public service missions”. Pôle emploi agents were regularly approached last year, whether for new employment assistance schemes put in place by the executive or for the strengthening of control of the unemployed and their job search activity. ‘use. As a result of the increase in the number of missions devolved to Pôle Emploi agents without having sufficient staff, their working conditions have deteriorated, deplores the World Philippe Rocheteau, substitute central union representative for FO.
Insufficient proposals
In a letter addressed to Elisabeth Borne dated January 28, the inter-union Pôle emploi therefore asks the Minister of Labor to receive them this Tuesday in order to “find a favorable outcome to this conflict”. A few days earlier, the unions had indeed tried to win their case with the general management of Pôle emploi. Two negotiating sessions were held on January 24 and 26, at the end of which the representatives were offered a slight increase: “Management told us that the Ministry of Labor “authorizes management to propose a 1% increase” and that the proposals it will make at the next meeting on February 9 “will depend on the mobilization of February 1””, explains the press release from the inter-union, arguing that these proposals “are not sufficient as they stand”. She now hopes to get more at the end of the movement scheduled for Tuesday.