en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL (September) -
unionism, social tensions in back (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
After the adoption of Macron and Rebsamen laws, issues remain about high wages,
unemployment and austerity affecting public services. If local struggles struggling to
unite the government offensive against the Labour Code and the MEDEF on supplementary
pensions sound like two appointments on a national scale. ---- Employees returning to work
this autumn in a new context after validation by the Constitutional Council of Macron laws
and bringing Rebsamen "modernization" one economic, the other social dialogue. Some
examples: The duration of the agreements of "maintaining jobs" that allow to lower wages
and / or working time is extended from two to five years. The principle of capping and
implementation schedules for benefits earned to the industrial tribunal is acquired while
the Commission rejected the criterion of company size. The obligations of the socially
when redundancies can not be assessed against the surface of the group but the only
company concerned. The development of buses will necessarily be at the expense of rail.
The ecological aberration doubles as a social competitive tendering of drivers of buses
and trains. The expansion of Sunday work and night will worsen working conditions in the
trade, and it is expected that other sectors are gradually affected.
The obligation to negotiate branch agreements on sharing and participation aims to
generalize this type of random tools instead of good old augmentions wages. The threat of
imprisonment a boss for the offense of obstructing union activity (also never executed...)
is far removed from the law. The threshold for consolidation of representative bodies (EC,
DP, CHSCT) into a single delegation (DUP ) which was limited to companies up to 200
employees to 300. And pass becomes possible beyond 300 per company agreement. The decrees
will specify the number of elected losses and delegation hours. For very small companies
(TPE, fewer than eleven employees) is setting up a joint committee outside the company
which can provide it will have no practical use except to distract union officials. The
specific unemployment benefits of the entertainment will be included in the Labour Code.
What is likely to be that new attacks against this status. The CDD remain renewed twice
but for an extended period to eighteen months. The mandatory negotiations within companies
are grouped for "drown" the wages. Known as the NAO (mandatory annual negotiations) and on
various topics (employment, equal male / female, disabled persons...), the NAO has become
in many companies the highlight of the wage claim, an appointment you causing a
conflictual regrettable... The law also provides that a company agreement it will be
possible to negotiate every three years!
Against austerity
If the first quarter 2015 was marked by many struggles on wages (NAO effect), the second
quarter has seen a multitude of conflicts, often very localized and systematically
under-publicized. Apart from the mobilization of trade against Sunday work, the common
marker of these conflicts is the resistance in public services to the consequences of
fiscal austerity.
There are of course the long mobilization against AP-HP Hirsch plane, but also a
succession of struggles in post offices, in schools, in urban transport. And a lot of
commotion in the municipal utilities affected by restructuring or closures libraries,
community centers, early childhood, school meals, health centers, sports facilities...
The AP-HP angry
In Paris, June 11, 2015, against the project of Martin Hirsch on RTT. © red Photo / JMB
These movements affecting services directly hit by arbitration of municipal councils whose
budgets have collapsed often struggle to extend to all municipal staff but frequently give
rise to a junction with the inhabitants organized in support committee. In this area,
unfortunately combat opportunities have not disappeared in September, on the contrary.
Appointments known
The government and the Medef summon us for two major battles: the Labour Code and
supplementary pensions. We wait for mid-September the Combrexelle compared to "simplify"
the Labour Code.
If we were naive we may rejoice in the idea as it is true that the Code is terribly more
complex in recent years. Must still clear that the main cause of this heavier comes from
the desire to "soften" the rules and that it is precisely the stacking of the
"flexibility" in particular on working time came burdening the Code. We agree to remove
all the code that allows the flexibility or the annualization of work time!
Alas goal is obviously opposite: clear details which bounded, sometimes obscurely, the
amplitudes flexibility to enable companies to negotiate tailored agreements. Clear
derogatory conditioned authorizations for the very notion of derogation disappears.
A meaningless code leaving full freedom to the company to negotiate anything: this is the
purpose of the CFDT which swells as the Code deflates. There is concern that it is not
easy to mobilize on such a subject as much at stake will be hidden in legal jargon.
Decryption setbacks and explanation to the public will be a priority.
The other major event is simpler to unveil. The supplementary pension schemes
(AGIRC-ARRCO) of private sector employees are in trouble. It would suffice course the
unemployed back to work and fully contribute to the coffers. Or that bosses pay more...
But it is an opportunity for the Medef forward masked the retirement age.
Indeed, supplementary pensions can represent up to half of the total pension. The
employer's proposal is therefore that of 62 to 65, supplementary pensions will not be paid
in full but will rise gradually in charge. Which will leave the majority of employees the
choice to continue working until age 65 to receive their full retirement.
Two mobilizations scheduled
On 23 September, the CGT organized in Paris a day against employer repression and trade
union freedoms. It would make this day during a single response against the very concrete
situations of repression; it would also have the necessary permits to launch campaign
against the reform of the Labour Code.
October 8 will be a new day of mobilization CGT, Solidaires, FSU. The involvement of
certain TF does not appear so far. Once tote day that will sense if the militant unionists
and revolutionaries manage to make a real day of general strike, a springboard day for all
resistances merge in a social uprising without which we n 'not will reverse the trend.
Jean-Yves (AL 93)
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