After months of tension around the persistent freeze of the index point in the public service, unions and government are meeting Thursday in Paris to address short-term purchasing power issues.
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Notable parameter: whatever their sensitivity, the representative organizations agree on the need to increase the value of the index point, which is used to calculate the remuneration of 5.6 million public officials.
"
Incomprehensible
"
freeze
of the index point
"
At this stage, only an increase in the value of the point is likely to respond to the consequences of inflation for all public officials
", insisted the CFDT at the end of November in a letter to the Minister of Public Service , Amélie de Montchalin. For its part, Unsa spoke directly to the Prime Minister, criticizing the “
incomprehensible
”
freezing
of the index point in a letter dated December 1. The demands of the two unions were added to those, older ones, of an inter-union CGT-FSU-Solidaires-FA.
During a joint press conference of the four organizations, the secretary general of the FSU Benoit Teste called for "to
make December 9 a turning point.
""
Anger is important.
It is about making it known and increasing the level of pressure on the minister and the government,
”he added.
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"
The unions wanted to raise the subject of the index point, it is not a taboo subject
," the ministry told AFP in view of Thursday's meeting.
"
The idea is to know if what we have proposed at this stage is enough or if other
salary
measures
" are
needed
, he added.
With the exception of two revaluations of 0.6% in July 2016 and February 2017, the value of the index point has been frozen since 2010.
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In addition to the point of index, the stake of the meeting for the ministry will also be to keep a maximum of unions on board the conference on the salary perspectives, a cycle of discussions initiated in the fall and supposed to last until in February. Several organizations are wondering about the concrete outlets of the exercise. The next meetings of the salary conference will focus on careers and compensation on Monday and on January 18 on contract workers. They will take place a priori without Force Ouvrière, which slammed the door in mid-November, deeming the discussions "
sterile
".
The CGT, the FSU and Solidaires, for their part, are asking for “
a clear and rapid response
” from the minister on salary issues during the meeting on Monday, failing which they “would
know how to take their responsibilities
”.
However, between Thursday's meeting and the salary conference, "
there are really two different perspectives
" for the ministry.
"
They are obviously linked but not with the same temporality
", we conclude rue de Grenelle.
