Seven of the eight public service union organizations were expected at the Ministry of Transformation and the Civil Service. A meeting which ended short, the union representatives having left the premises before the discussions even began.

“We are not very far from the declaration of war,” adds Stanislas Gaudon, president of the public services federation of the CFE-CGC. The day of general mobilization, the first in five years, has been decreed for Tuesday March 19. If civil servants have obtained two successive increases in the index point in 2022 and 2023, the year 2024 will be "a blank year" in terms of salary increases.