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Salaries, retirement: eight unions of public officials challenge Élisabeth Borne

2022-05-17T12:15:02.191Z


They call on the new Prime Minister to increase salaries and to abandon the increase in the legal retirement age.


A broad coalition of public service unions on Tuesday challenged the new Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in an open letter, calling on her to increase salaries and to abandon the increase in the legal retirement age.

"

At the very beginning of the five-year term, our trade union organizations CFE CGC, CFTC, CGT, FA, FO State, FSU, Solidaires and UNSA of the Public Service believe that important measures must be taken without delay

", write the authors of this letter. also addressed to President Emmanuel Macron.

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"

The first emergency is that of wages and purchasing power

", hammer the eight unions, two months after the announcement of a general increase "

before the summer

" by the Minister of Public Service Amélie de Montchalin.

The index point [the common remuneration base for the 5.7 million public officials] must therefore be strongly upgraded and as soon as possible

,” they add.

Hostile to raising the retirement age

The signatories of the open letter also believe that indexing the value of the index point to the evolution of the cost of living “

would be entirely relevant

”.

On Wednesday, the spokesperson for the previous government Gabriel Attal had announced after the Council of Ministers that the unfreezing of the index point would be integrated into a "

purchasing power

" law , presented after the legislative elections (12 and June 19).

The other major demand expressed in the letter relates to pensions, the unions confirming their "

hostility to any further decline in the legal age for retirement

".

During the presidential campaign, Emmanuel Macron promised to gradually raise this age to 65, compared to 62 currently.

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The unions mention at the end of the letter several other “

structuring files

” that they would like

to “change

”, such as professional equality or salary progression grids.

A last subject not sufficiently highlighted, according to the CFDT Public functions, the only representative union not to have signed the letter.

The second organization of public officials considers, moreover, that the demands in terms of pensions apply to the whole of society and must therefore be brought to the confederal level rather than by the only civil service branch of the CFDT.

Source: lefigaro

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