The government undoubtedly hoped that this new bloodletting would go unnoticed. On November 12, he secretly tabled two amendments (here and there) to the 2025 budget, drastically reducing the number of his agents. First victims: the Ministries of Ecology and Territories.
According to calculations by the Force Ouvrière union, which discovered the pot aux roses, the employment ceilings — the total number of people working full-time equivalent (ETP) — would be reduced by more than 300 positions within these ministries. As for parapublic agencies, their workforce should drop by 250 ETP.
In detail, the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion should lose 322 jobs ETPeither « a third of the effort required » to all public administrations, specifies Laurent Janvier, from Feets-FO. On the Ecology side, it is the operators who will toast: « It should be fifteen to minus ETP to water agencies, minus seven in national parks, and minus twenty-five for theOFB »list Véronique Caraco-Giordano, secretary general of SNE–FSU. As for Cerema, Météo-France andIGNthey could lose forty-two ETP.
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It is about« a real additional bleeding »writes the Feet-unionFO in a press release: « With blind accounting logic, the government is sacrificing the human resources essential to the implementation of priority public policies that pose major challenges for the future. ».
This new pill is all the more difficult to pass because it was not planned. « Initially, the management of the Ministry of Ecology assured us, in October, that we had to remain at the same number of positions »says Véronique Caraco-Giordano. But the executive took advantage of the heated parliamentary debate to tighten the austerity screw a little more, in the name of « reinforced exemplarity » of the state.
Exemplarity does not rhyme with transparency, nor with consultation. « We had to do our own investigation to get all the informationannoys Laurent Janvier, from Feets-FO. Mme Vautrin [ministre de la Cohésion des territoires] she herself seemed to discover the figures that were put under her nose. »
The Ministry of the Environment was “ dismantled »
Enough to further tarnish an already very dark picture of environmental policy. « Clearly, morale is low, the agents are very, very poorly »sighs Véronique Caraco-Giordano. For his union, « the defense of the public service of the Environment is not the priority of our leaders ».
« We are the ministry which has lost the most staff over the last fifteen years, and we have experienced significant budget cutsdeplores the general secretary. With the Barnier government, the Ministry of the Environment was dismantled into three ministries and as many delegated ministries, which considerably reduces our weight within the executive and our room for maneuver. »
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And icing on the cake, « the agricultural crisis has resumed, which targets in particular the French Biodiversity Office, without being sufficiently defended by our leaders ». « Our ministry is being abused »said the unionist. As the economist Maxime Combes feared in an interview with Reporterre, « ecology serves as an adjustment variable in the budget ». Who will be the adjustment variable for the ongoing climate catastrophe ?
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