The union is asking for permanent hires, wage compensation due to the professional needs that will be created by the Games, rights to leave, the option of telecommuting and disconnection
The French CGT union announced today that it has filed a strike warning for civil servants between on April 15 to September 15, which therefore covers the period of the Paris Olympic Games (26 July – 11 August) and the Paralympic Games (28 August – 8 September).
“No Olympic truce”, warns in a statement the largest public sector union, which had already made known its intention to call for a strike during the Olympic Games and filed warnings for the three branches of the public sector (State, collectives, health).
The union is mainly asking for “permanent recruitment, wage compensations due to the professional needs that will be created by the Games, (…) rights to leave, to choose to work remotely and to disconnect”.
The warning follows that of the second-largest public sector union, Force Ouvrière (FO), which also filed a strike warning in early March to extend the duration of the Olympics, demanding better pay for civil servants.
Two other unions, CFDT (third in power in the public sector) and Unsa (fourth) have on the contrary announced that at this stage they are not calling for mobilization during the Olympic Games, with the general secretary of CFDT assuring at the beginning of March that the her confederacy has “no desire to spoil this celebration.”
“The whole country wishes that there would be no strikes” during the Olympic Games, Public Administration Minister Stanislas Gerini had emphasized at the beginning of March.
The minister had then described as “very inaccurate” the claim of unions, according to which there was no dialogue with the government on the preparation of the Olympic Games, and had confirmed that the public bodies, which will be mobilized during the Games, will receive a premium of 500 , 1,000, even 1,500 euros, depending on the degree of their involvement.
“We were able to establish that here too the money flows profusely (…) with a total payroll of 584.8 million euros for the only around thirty directors of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games”, the CGT complained today on its part .
Source :Skai
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