Marylise Léon, general secretary of the CFDT, during a social conference organized at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, in Paris, October 16, 2023 (POOL/AFP/Archives/Miguel MEDINA)
The CFDT will not file a strike notice in the public service “at this stage” for the Paris Olympic Games, having “no desire to spoil this festive moment”, assured Friday on France 2 Marylise Léon, the general secretary of the confederation.
“This is not on the agenda for the CFDT. We are in the framework of negotiations, so at this stage, no notice of strike in public services for the CFDT,” she said. declared.
The CGT announced Thursday that it would file strike notices in the public service for the period of the Games (July 26 – August 11).
Marylise Léon added that currently, it was “the time for negotiation” without excluding resorting to a strike if it failed.
“Both parties must make an effort” but “at this stage, it’s no”, she replied on the advisability of calling to stop work during the Olympics
“For the CFDT, there is no desire to spoil this festive moment of the Olympic Games. So all the more reason for employers (…) to be there and make efforts within the framework of the negotiations which are open”, argued the head of the first French union.
The president of the organizing committee for the Olympic Games, Tony Estanguet, last week called for a social “truce” during the Olympic Games.
More broadly on the question of the civil service, the leader of Force Ouvrière (FO), Frédéric Souillot, protests that “civil servants and public agents carry out their missions in perpetually deteriorating conditions”.
In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister on Thursday, he announced that he had filed strike notices from “Tuesday March 19 and may continue until September 8” covering the period of the Games, if the government does not respond to demands such as “the “immediate increase of 10% in the value of the index point” of civil servants and “improvement of the index grid”, among others.
“The Minister of Transformation and the Civil Service, who wanted to open salary negotiations before the summer and an improvement in the index scale in the second half of the year, has been absent since the unacceptable announcement by the Minister of the Economy of 10 billion in reduction in public spending in 2024 and 12 billion in 2025”, he wrote in this letter, of which AFP obtained a copy.
Friday evening, Gabriel Attal indicated on France 5 that “the Minister of Transformation and Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini will receive the trade union organizations next week on the subject of the Olympics to continue to move forward, to clarify a certain number of things on what will happen.”
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