2.32 million euros. This is the record amount reached by the CGT Info’Com strike fund during the 2023 collection. The union that represents information and communication employees has been registering record donations for a few days. Although the largest donation from this strike fund created in 2016 amounted to 5,000 euros, within a few days he received a check for 30,000 euros from a donor and then 100,000 euros from a union.
asked by the parisianThe coordinator of this solidarity fund indicates that he has already received more than 25,300 contributions since the beginning of the movement, or 300 per day on average.
On the confederation side, we are also delighted with the record amounts raised. The CGT kitten Leetchi crossed the bar this Friday with the 1.4 million euros raised by 18,941 contributions, or an average of 74 euros per donation.
Since the beginning of the movement, local union sections or federations have created hundreds of collections on the Internet. Most of them are listed on this interactive map. CNT-SO fund (cleaning and hotel outsourcing), book trade fund, Ile-de-France educational assistants fund… Each collection reaches a few thousand euros or even a few tens of thousands of euros for some.
If an exhaustive census has not been carried out, their number could flirt with that of the 2019 strikes when the sociologist Gabriel Rosenman, a former SUD-Rail railway worker, had counted 380 funds.
More money than in 2020
Due to the duration of the movement that started in January, the amounts collected are higher than during the previous movement. During the previous challenge, the CGT had raised more than one million euros in just three weeks. In total, the accumulated sums of the various funds had reached 2.5 million euros in January 2020 according to the site’s count. quite. This year, the only two funds of the CGT and the CGT Info’Com accumulate 2.7 million euros. Due to a conflict that has been going on for more than eight weeks.
Sums that will mitigate the losses in purchasing power of the strikers, which is why some are already nine days before even the 10th day scheduled for March 28. For a private sector employee, the loss of income amounts to an average of 79 euros per day (11.3 euros net per hour according to the INSEE), for a worker it is 83 euros and for a manager 193 euros.
If these participatory strike funds have multiplied with the internet, they only represent a small part of the funds available to unions to support the movement. Some thus deduct part of their members’ contributions to supplement a fund that is used to support employees during moves.
The most important is the Caisse Nationale d’Action Syndicale (CNDS), created in 1973 by the CFDT at the confederal level. Half a century after its creation, the first union of private sector employees It thus has a war chest of 141 million euros that it allocates to finance the strike days of its affiliates. To benefit from it, you must have contributed to the CFDT for more than 6 months. But even its employees are not fully covered as the compensation amounts to 7.70 euros net per hour, while the net minimum wage per hour is around 9 euros per hour.
Source: BFM TV
