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Truckers' strike on Monday to demand wage increases, blockages to be expected

2022-06-27T05:32:06.335Z


Twenty industrial sites have been targeted by the unions, who say they do not want to "annoy motorists".


Cash or goods transporters, ambulance drivers, movers... Employees in the road transport sector are called to action on Monday 27 June.

All transport union federations are indeed calling for a national protest movement to demand wage increases in road transport.

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The health crisis has highlighted the importance of transport activities, which have even been declared of public utility by the government.

But this recognition has not translated into negotiations on wages or working conditions

, ”deplore the CFDT, the CGT, FO, the CFTC and the CFE-CGC in a joint press release.

The blockades started at dawn.

Twenty industrial sites have been targeted, according to

Le Parisien

.

"

All regions will be affected but we don't want to bother motorists

," said Patrick Blaise, secretary general of the FGTE Route CFDT, the first union in the profession, to the Ile-de-France daily.

Are thus concerned Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes, Nantes, Lille, or even Metz.

We are going to block the big operators: transport of goods, passengers, logistics, transport of funds …

”, assured at the beginning of the month Thierry Douine, president of the CFTC-Transports.

Towards other strikes in October?

The unions are calling for "

the unconditional reopening of real NAOs

(mandatory annual negotiations, editor

's note) in all sectors

" of road transport, to deal with "

galloping and exponential inflation, a severe shortage of employees due to the lack of 'attractiveness in all of the CCNTR's sectors

' and a '

purchasing power of employees which is melting like snow in the sun

'.

In the road transport of goods, agreements were signed last February (revaluation of salary scales by 6%) but "

they have already become obsolete

" because the minimums have fallen below the Smic, indicates Thierry Douine, because of the inflation - which reached 5.2% in May over one year according to INSEE.

"

In the transport of funds and values, no revaluation of the conventional grids for seven years

", are also indignant the unions.

In logistics, companies in the sector "

are sticking to their indecent proposals for a 3% increase in conventional rates

", they add.

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This mobilization is only “a

first day

”, warns Patrice Clos, boss of FO Transports.

"

If we are not heard, the government must know that we will go on longer actions from October

," he said on Franceinfo.

A new social crisis is thus brewing in a sector, transport, which does not yet have an appointed minister in the government of Elisabeth Borne.

Source: lefigaro

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