It is a beginning. The employers and unions of the electrical and gas industries have returned to the dialogue, with respect to the structural reform of the remuneration network of some 138,000 employees in the sector, a sensitive project, which has not followed inflation in recent years.
Employers organized bilateral meetings on Monday and Tuesday with the four representative union organizations (CGT, CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO), before a meeting with the intervala scheduled for October 1, according to concordant trade union sources.
However, while the CGT, the first organization of the branch, had mentioned a “negotiation meeting” last week, a consequence of a strike began on September 2 on this issue and energy taxes, two unions indicated that the negotiations had not really begun really.
“We are really in a discussion and negotiation, potentially,” will be held “at the next meeting of a joint agency, scheduled for October 9, to the AFP Dominique Santoni, federal delegate of the electric and gas industries in the CFDT.
Meanwhile, during the meeting planned with the intervala, the CFDT expects “concrete proposals” of employers or at least “guarantees in terms of calendar.”
According to the CFE-Anergie, the second union of the branch, employers have “surveyed” the trade union organizations, at this stage.
Salaries and purchasing power
The Syndicat des Cadres initially awaits the rapid opening of obligatory annual negotiations about wages to respond to the concerns of “purchasing power” raised by employees in the sector, a separate topic of the review of the network.
The CGT, the first union in the sector, was not accessible on Tuesday night to give its feeling after its meeting.
The representative unions, if they diverge in the remedies that will be presented, agree that the network has deteriorated in recent years, under the effect of inflation, the first levels of remuneration are close, even lower than the minimum wage. In addition, the network does not take into account the extension of the races, a consequence of the last pension reform.
Employers, meanwhile, want more flexibility for increases in individual salaries.
Source: BFM TV
