Towards an appeasement of the social conflict at the Aéroports de Paris? After several days of strike against a project to modify employment contracts, the management of the management group of the Paris airports of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly, signed on Tuesday July 13, an agreement to end the conflict with the unions CFE-CGC and UNSA, she announced.
The CGT, one of the group’s three representative unions, “Did not sign” this agreement and its strike notice “Is maintained for Friday”, however specified Frédéric Lecocq, CGT union delegate at ADP.
For management, this “Majority agreement”, taking into account the signatures of CFE-CGC and UNSA, is “Balanced” and “Based on give and take”, said Edward Arkwright, executive managing director.
This agreement will allow “To get out of the conflict, to provide a certain number of guarantees to employees”, stressed Mr. Arkwright. He “Supervises the implementation of the PACT project” (plan for adapting employment contracts) and “Gives visibility” to employees, he added.
The text brings “Guarantees on the supervision of reductions in remuneration and their limitation in time” and includes “Waiver of the geographic mobility clause” initially planned, he said.
Guarantees on remuneration
With this ” framing “, the employees “Are assured that they will not lose more than 5% in 2021 [et] in 2022 “, then no more than “4% in 2023”, with “Guarantee of recovering their 2019 remuneration by 2024 at the latest, without conditions”. Yes “The level of 2019” traffic in airports “Was found before” 2024, “Then this guarantee would apply”, he said.
“It is an agreement which allows us, from now on, to focus on welcoming passengers, on preserving the company’s situation and being able to prepare for the challenges that will follow this three-year period and this exit from crisis “, said Mr. Arkwright.
For UNSA, this “End of strike protocol will not meet all our demands”, But “It will allow the limitation of wage moderation and will cancel the geographical mobility clause provided for in the PACT project, among others”, reacted Laurent Garssine, secretary general at ADP.
Interrogation of union officials
Calling on employees to strike and demonstrate on several occasions in June and July, the unions CFE-CGC, CGT and UNSA of ADP had jointly demanded the withdrawal of the PACT which provides for a reduction or abolition of premiums. In case of refusal to modify their employment contract, employees risk dismissal via an employment safeguard plan (PSE).
It was on July 2 that the impact of the strike was strongest on air traffic: flights had been delayed by an average of one hour at Roissy and fifteen minutes at Orly.
Last Friday, the movement was marked by the arrest of several union officials in Orly, during a demonstration, before being released. But the strike had no impact on traffic, apart from a few delayed flights. Saturday, the last day of the strike call, traffic was normal.
Management considers the PACT necessary to achieve savings while the Covid-19 pandemic has plagued air transport and the activity of the group, which is majority owned by the State.
Faced with this crisis, the management had signed in December, with the three representative unions, an agreement of collective termination (RCC) providing for 1,150 departures of employees in 2021, including 700 not replaced.