The 1.6% increase in the minimum wage is “not up to the level of the explosion in the cost of living”, judges Sophie Binet
At the end of the social conference organized in Matignon, the general secretary of the CGT was the guest of 8:30 am franceinfo on Tuesday. She believes that the increase in the minimum wage is "totally insufficient",…
The 1.6% increase in the minimum wage, announced Monday November 9 by the government following a social conference, is "not up to the explosion in the cost of living and needs", said Tuesday November 10 on franceinfo Sophie Binet, the general secretary of the CGT. According to Sophie Binet, this increase is “totally insufficient”. The trade unionist underlines that "France, for ten years, has been the European country which has increased its minimum wage the least".
“Compared to the level of anger and especially the explosion in prices, the account is not there,” she laments, while the government boost represents an additional 24 euros net per month. “Millions of workers” are “taken by the throat by an unprecedented price explosion,” adds the general secretary of the CGT. “Cold negotiations, if it worked, it would be known” The unions, including the CGT, are demanding an increase of 150 euros net in the minimum wage.
Such an increase could “harm employment” and lead to the elimination of 230,000 jobs, the Minister of Labor declared on Sunday. “Many economists dispute this figure,” says Sophie Binet. She also asks the government to intervene in salary negotiations, because "with this 1.6% boost", "164 branches out of 200", or "14 million employees", will have minimum salaries "lower than the minimum wage".
Also read Increase in the minimum wage, reductions in charges for businesses... What to remember from the government's announcements at the end of the social conference "The only thing that makes these negotiations work is the balance of power, mobilization and pressure", assures Sophie Binet. With an inter-union union, she is calling for a day of strike and demonstration on November 17, “to go and extract salary increases everywhere”.
“We consider that negotiations only work when they are in a balance of power. Cold negotiations, if it worked, it would be known,” insists the general secretary of the CGT.
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