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Three months before the opening ceremony, the unions are putting pressure on. In particular the civil servants, burned by the public sector reform project carried out by the minister, Stanislas Guerini. In certain companies which will be in high demand during this period, such as RATP and SNCF, workers have already obtained favorable agreements.
The Paris Olympics, a ground for social mobilization? The stakes are double three months before the “Olympic celebration”. There are, on the one hand, the hundreds of thousands of public officials who will be called upon during this period and who are entitled to expect adequate compensation; but also, on the other hand, an opportunity to make broader demands. After all, notes Christian Grolier, the secretary general of FO civil service, these Olympics are “a shooting window that we only have once every hundred years”.
Saturday morning on France Info, at coffee and toast time, Stanislas Guerini appeared calm: “I don’t think there will be a strike during the Olympic and Paralympic Games,” assured the Minister of the Civil Service. Because with the unions, “the discussions are very intense, very nourished”, according to him. And to explain that “even in recent days, there have been meetings on both bonuses, […] social support for agents in crèche places, universal service employment vouchers, so I believe that the support is up to the task.” Yet, according to Marylise Léon, the discussions for the Olympics, which are being held ministry by ministry, are still far from being completed, and time is starting to run out: “In May, we need to know what to expect,” has
