
The meeting with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu comes before the announced strike of November 17
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After the strikes of September 29 and November 5, all union organizations except the CFDT called a strike on November 17. The first meetings in Bercy did not satisfy the majority of unions.
After the strike of September 29, then that of November 5, all the union organizations except the CFDT called a strike on November 17, including the two main ones in the Civil Service, the CGT and Force Ouvrière. After the first unsuccessful meetings in Bercy this week, where the government did not satisfy the majority of unions questioned by AFP, the meeting in Matignon takes on the appearance of a last chance.
The executive could propose raising the basic salaries of agents who have the lowest levels of remuneration, and receive compensation to reach the minimum minimum wage threshold. This would allow a certain number of them to be removed from this system, without them receiving more than the minimum wage.
This path had already been outlined by David Amiel at the beginning of October. It would then have allowed some 400,000 beneficiaries of this compensation to exit, a figure which is no longer relevant since the new boost to the minimum wage on Monday.
The public service unions were received by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday and are awaiting announcements on salaries, a few days after a boost to the minimum wage which does not concern them and before a strike announced to the public on November 17. Having remained a dead letter for a long time, the request from the union representatives of the 5.8 million public employees to meet the head of government was finally successful.
The eight representative organizations will meet with Sébastien Lecornu from 9:30 a.m. in the hope that he will open the door to their main demand: increasing wages. This meeting should in particular make it possible to “examine as a priority concrete measures” likely to improve the situation of public employees, “paying particular attention to agents with the lowest incomes”, according to a letter from the Prime Minister to the unions consulted by AFP.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The government will propose to raise the basic salaries of the lowest paid agents to remove them from the minimum wage compensation system.
Likely · Within days
A public strike is announced on November 17 if the announcements do not satisfy the unions.
Likely · Within days

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