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Sophie Binet: "Wages in France are collapsing"

2023-05-14T11:26:31.491Z

Highlights: Sophie Binet, the new boss of the CGT since the end of March, is charting her course. Invited to the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro, the general secretary of the union evoked his future meeting Wednesday with the prime minister. She recalls that no particular agenda has been put forward by Matignon for this bilateral meeting and plans to return to three major subjects. The CGT is still advocating for a reduction in working hours to 32 hours per week, remaining convinced that such a device would create jobs.


Guest of the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro, Sophie Binet still demands the withdrawal of the pension reform. She will meet Elisabeth Borne on Wednesday.


Sophie Binet, the new boss of the CGT since the end of March, is charting her course. Invited to the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro, the general secretary of the union evoked his future meeting Wednesday with the prime minister. She recalls that no particular agenda has been put forward by Matignon for this bilateral meeting and plans to return to three major subjects.

Sophie Binet will first reiterate her opposition to the pension reform qualified as "extremely violent". She hopes for "millions of participants" for the next day of mobilization, which will take place on June 6 two days before the vote on the bill of the Liot parliamentary group to repeal the postponement of the legal age of departure to 64 years. "There will be no return to normal [of the social climate] until the text is withdrawn, the anger is very strong," assured the unionist. The CGT is still advocating for a reduction in working hours to 32 hours per week, remaining convinced that such a device would create jobs.

Wage indexation

The representative of the CGT still wants to raise the issue of wages "which collapse in France". It calls for wage indexation to inflation in order to support the purchasing power of employees. A strategy rejected by the president because it tends to feed the mechanisms of second round of inflation. Sophie Binet is concerned about the "low-wage trap" caused by the concentration of public aid on the lowest wages. Philippe Martinez's successor will again argue for the conditionality of public aid to companies.

For example, she singled out Air France, whose "boss tripled his salary while the group had been one of the first beneficiaries of aid during covid". In its view, only groups that meet certain social criteria should benefit from such aid. The General Secretary believes that trade union representatives are best placed to monitor companies in this respect.

Sophie Binet finally opposes without surprise Emmanuel Macron's statements on the limitation of ecological standards and his speech on reindustrialization, which she considers essentially as "com". As for the idea of imposing sanctions on RSA beneficiaries who do not comply with the "accompaniment" pathway back to employment, she sees only an "unacceptable stigmatization of the unemployed ".

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On Monday, the inter-union (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, Solidaires, FSU, Unef, la Voix lycéenne, FAGE, FIDL, MNL) plans to publish a new communiqué to reaffirm its determined opposition to the reform. On 5th May she sent a letter to parliamentarians urging them to vote for the Liot bill.

Source: lefigaro

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