Unions take action over public sector negotiations

France

The CGT and FO trade union federation have organised a day of strike action on 18 October to maintain pressure on the government to establish a proper process of negotiation in the public sector, to increase pay and to change its planned reforms of special retirement plans. A co-ordinated day of action is also being planned by the main union confederations for the middle of November. André Santini, the Secretary of State for the Public Services, said at a conference earlier this month that public services depended on a good social dialogue and that he wanted to establish a social dialogue in the public sector that would be a model for the private sector. Unions are yet to be convinced and have set out a range of demands on both the social dialogue process and the need to tackle the fall in real salary levels across the public sector.
Read more at > CGT (FR)
And at > FO (FR)
And at > CFDT (FR)

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