LIVE - Social anger: increase in the minimum wage, Parcoursup... Sébastien Lecornu promises “concrete answers” this Monday

The public service unions were not invited on Monday and will be received separately by Mr. Lecornu on Friday. “By segmenting his responses to the social movement” between employees and high school students or between the private and public sectors, the Prime Minister “deprives himself of a wind effect” and “takes the risk that the social movement takes hold over time,” warns the national secretary of Unsa, Laurent Escure.

The discontent does not weaken, with days of mobilization succeeding each week since the start of the high school movement in mid-September, marred on October 17 and October 18 by unprecedented violence and looting. 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.

Under pressure from demonstrators and without financial margin, Sébastien Lecornu tries on Monday to respond to the social anger expressed for several weeks by unions and youth. 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 and therefore relies on the social partners, whom he brings together on Monday morning for a social conference.

Mr. Lecornu will subsequently discuss in the afternoon with representatives of high school and student students, before a first committee to reform the Parcoursup guidance system, at the heart of their demands. In a letter Friday to unions and employers, Sébastien Lecornu says he hears “the expectations” on purchasing power as much as the “concerns” of bosses about employment, and promises “concrete answers” ​​that he will present to the press after the social conference.

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