In several sectors, unions are calling for mobilization to protest against the government's cost-saving measures.
The unions are taking to the front against the government's measures. Whereas “it is not up to public officials to pay the debt”almost all organizations representing the public service called for mobilization this Thursday, December 5. A “day of action, rallies, demonstrations and strike” organized to block the 1.2 billion euros in savings planned in the administration by the government for the 2025 budget. CGT, CFDT, UNSA, FSU, Solidaires, CFE-CGC and FA-FP are calling for a walkout. For its part, Force Ouvrière, the second largest union in the entire civil service, did not join this declaration and maintained a call for a three-day renewable strike. “at the same time as the railway strike”.
If the Minister of the Civil Service Guillaume Kasbarian had agreed to renounce the abolition of categories A, B and C, several blocking points persist. The inter-union is very angry against the move to three waiting days instead of one, in the event of sick leave, the reduction in compensation from 100% to 90%, the non-payment of the purchasing power bonus Gipa or even the freezing of the index point. “It is clear that Guillaume Kasbarian did not respond to most of the other proposals and demands made by the trade union organizations”underlines the CGT in a press release.
Schools, hospitals, town halls…
Concretely, the movement should have consequences in Education, where the unions have called to follow the inter-union call for a strike. Several cities, like Strasbourg, have already warned parents that canteens would be closed on Thursday. Reception could also be disrupted in several local public services, such as town halls.
Hospitals should also mobilize, with most healthcare staff unions having notably denounced the move to three days of absence and the reduction in compensation for sick leave. Two proposals that they see as “a very poor response to a problem which already has a solution: the implementation of measures to control sick leave carried out by the CPAM (Primary Health Insurance Fund) or by employers”.
Energy
Civil servants will not be the only ones to strike this Thursday, since the CGT, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO have called “all companies in the electricity and gas sector” to mobilization on the same date. They are protesting against their salary negotiations, which began in the companies and are not “not up to standard” demands. By chance of the calendar, the date of December 5 corresponds to a planned meeting of the energy sector body. This day of strike should not, however, have any significant consequences for the public, but should above all result in a loss of earnings for businesses.
In the electricity and gas industries sector, general increases are decided at branch level and apply to all companies, which then negotiate a range of individual increases, the addition of the two giving the overall increase. employees. “In general increase, we are at +0.8%. In companies, all four trade union organizations representing the sector requested 2.3% in individual measures.declared Laurent Koessler, responsible for social dialogue at CFE-Energies, the second largest organization in the sector, which has just under 140,000 employees.
