DIRECT. Social conference: “The anger will not disappear because the government will have announced a few additional euros on the minimum wage”, warns the general secretary of the CGT
Under pressure, Sébastien Lecornu tries on Monday to respond to the social anger expressed for several weeks by unions and youth. He will receive high school and student organizations on Monday afternoon.
“The social conference is not a yellow coin operation,” the general secretary of the CGT said on Monday, November 9, on France Inter. “The anger is not going to disappear because the government will have announced a few additional euros on the minimum wage. We are waiting for overall responses, to the entire mobilization,” added Sophie Binet.
“What we know is that the government will automatically increase [the minimum wage] on January 1 by 1.2%, that is to say approximately 18 euros. So, if the government announces to us just now an increase of 23 euros, that means five euros” of aid from the government, assured the general secretary of the CGT, who is asking for an increase in the minimum wage of 150 euros net per month. Follow our live stream.
Sébastien Lecornu promises “concrete answers”. If the Prime Minister can give a boost to the minimum wage, which is his responsibility, he does not have the power to increase other salaries. Sébastien Lecornu therefore relies on the social partners, whom he brings together Monday, November 9 in the morning as part of a social conference.
In a letter sent Friday to unions and employers, he said he heard "the expectations" on purchasing power as much as the "concerns" of bosses for employment. The Prime Minister promises “concrete answers” which he will present to the press after the social conference. Public service unions are not invited.
They will be received separately by Sébastien Lecornu on Friday. “By segmenting his responses to the social movement”, the Prime Minister “deprives himself of a breathing effect” and “takes the risk that the social movement takes hold over time”, warned the national secretary of Unsa. A meeting straight away with the high school students.
Following his discussions with the social partners, the Prime Minister will discuss Monday afternoon with representatives of high school and university students, before a first committee to reform the Parcoursup guidance system, at the heart of their demands. A new day of demonstrations. Without waiting for the outcome of the social conference, an inter-union group bringing together high school, student and teacher organizations called for a new day of demonstrations on Tuesday.
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