Barely an hour after its secretary general Philippe Martinez was received by the new prime minister Jean Castex, the CGT called on Thursday July 9 for a day of demonstration and strike on September 17. Since the coronavirus crisis and the general confinement, there had not been an interprofessional day of demonstrations and strikes, but demonstrations by carers, against police violence or linked to the announcements of social plans that have followed one another for a month.
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“ After the meeting with the Prime Minister, still nothing concrete for employment and wages. We must move from words to actions, "said the CGT in a press release. Consequently, the union calls on “ employees, retirees, unemployed to make the day of September 17, 2020 a powerful national day of actions, strikes and demonstrations ”.
" Blackmail for employment, longer working hours, lower wages, performance agreement and reduced activity for job retention, the government is putting forward its arsenal to massively destroy jobs, the rights of employees and their social conquests , for the benefit of deadly employer policies , ”she explains. " With point retirement and the breakage of unemployment insurance in particular, they are bent on wanting to maintain a retrograde old world to satisfy the interests of capital at the expense of the interests of employees, retirees and those without jobs ", still believes the central union.
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Parade of unions and employers in Matignon
Prime Minister Jean Castex began receiving social partners in Matignon on Thursday, who, given the social crisis, have all put forward the question of "employment" rather than that of pensions which they do not want to hear about in the coming months.
From the early hours of the morning until Thursday evening, before a resumption this Friday afternoon, it was the big parade of unions and employers in Matignon - in the presence of the new Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne - to take the pulse intentions of the new Prime Minister.
