Unions demand negotiations with ministry over health plan

France

The five main health trade unions – CGT, CFDT, FO, SUD and UNSA – have written a joint open letter to the health minister calling on him to set out clear proposals for a process of negotiation over the content of the plan for health that he intends to publish on 25 May. The plan should include initiatives on pay and working time but the unions not that they were not consulted at all in advance of the minister’s statement on 17 May and want clear reassurances that proper negotiations will take place with them as the representative unions in the sector. They have also called for a timetable for the negotiations and have underlined that they want to raise all the key issues on pay, jobs and services that they have been campaigning for in recent years.

French unions

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