She doesn't want to be a spoilsport, at least not yet.
Unlike the CGT, the CFDT will not file a strike notice in the public service "at this stage" for the Paris Olympic Games this summer, having "no desire to spoil this festive moment", assured this Friday on France 2 Marylise Léon, the general secretary of the confederation.
“This is not on the agenda for the CFDT.
We are in the framework of negotiations, so at this stage, no notice of strike in public services for the CFDT,” she declared.
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For the moment, it is “negotiation time”, added Marylise Léon, without however excluding resorting to a strike if this fails.
“Both parties have to make an effort” but “at this stage, it’s no” regarding a call to stop work during the Olympic Games, she replied.
The State called upon to be “there”
“For the CFDT, there is no desire to spoil this festive moment of the Olympic Games.
So all the more reason for employers, (in particular) public ones, to be there and make efforts within the framework of the negotiations which are open,” argued the head of the first French union.
“There is a need for negotiations in public services, if the employing State is not there, nothing is excluded,” she nevertheless repeated.
For its part, the CGT announced Thursday that it would file strike notices in the public service for the period of the Games, which runs from July 26 to August 11.
“We want the government to take immediate measures to ensure the success of the Games for which the CGT has been working for years.
For this, we must finally have our warnings heard and the games prepared from a social point of view,” defended its general secretary, Sophie Binet, on Thursday.
“The Games are hundreds of thousands of workers who are affected,” she insisted.
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As for Force Ouvrière, the second public service union, its general secretary Frédéric Souillot recalled this Friday on LCI his organization's call for strike and mobilization on March 19: "We'll see later," he said. -he adds.
But “if the demands are not heard and if the working conditions are not recognized and improved, there are notices which are filed until September of this year,” he nevertheless warned. .
The president of the organizing committee for the Olympic Games, Tony Estanguet, last week called for a social "truce" during the Olympic Games, imploring that "we don't spoil the party."
“I hope that we can find solutions for everyone who will work on the issues, we are well aware that there are constraints to the organization of the Games,” he conceded.