Strike in the civil service: more than 13,000 demonstrators in Brittany [Vidéo]

“I am here to denounce attacks on public service. » Public officials, hospital staff, teachers… Civil servants took to the streets this Thursday to warn of budget cuts in the public service, the “deterioration” of their “working conditions and remuneration” and to express their dissatisfaction with to a “shameful bashing”. “Even if the government has resigned, we want to mark the occasion,” insists Fabrice Lerestif, FO secretary for Ille-et-Vilaine.

In Brittany, there were more than 13,000 hitting the streets. Including 4,000 in Rennes, 3,000 in Brest, 1,600 in Lorient, 1,300 in Saint-Brieuc, 700 in Quimper, Morlaix and Lannion… “We are asking for public services to be maintained because the government intended to close services hospitals and schools,” continues Fabrice Lerestif.

“Our rights are finer than in the private sector”

In Dinan (500 demonstrators), Éric, a nursing assistant at the hospital, is in full attendance. “The government always pits the private and the public against each other, and that’s a shame. Our system and our rights are finer than in the private sector. » Public service agents also oppose the three-day waiting period in the event of sick leave and the freezing of the index point.

“They throw us out to pasture by making us believe that we are privileged,” sighs, in Lorient, Florence, a 56-year-old primary school teacher and CFDT activist. “In the private sector, they have collective agreements, and have no waiting days or loss of salary,” recalls Éric.

One in three teachers on strike

In Vannes, around twenty France Travail agents mobilized in front of their agency against the consequences of the “Full Employment” law, which comes into force on January 1st. “A lot of resources are allocated to policing the unemployed, to the detriment of their support,” deplores Loïc Prévostat, of the CGT unemployed rebels of Morbihan.

In total, 18.62% of agents were on strike this Thursday in France, or more than 246,000 people, said the Ministry of Civil Service. The vast majority from National Education: almost one teacher in three (31.32%) was on strike. In total, the mobilizations brought together between 200,000 (according to the unions) and 131,000 (according to the authorities) demonstrators, including between 3,000 (authorities) to 30,000 (unions) in Paris.