Three of the five main unions, including the CFDT and the CGT, have signed the agreement negotiated with the employer in the field of accidents at work and occupational diseases (AT-MP) of the Social Security, we learned this Friday. The text, submitted for signature since mid-May after ten months of discussions, provides in particular for the acquisition by the social partners of the AT-MP branch, now managed by Health Insurance.
Unions and employers thus intend to share the surpluses of this fund, financed almost entirely by employer contributions and which should generate more than 2,000 million euros in surplus this year, out of a budget of 17,000 million.
A stroke of luck in which the Government will already take out more than one billion from 2024 to finance its pension reform. The social partners want to use the remainder to increase spending on prevention and “improve compensation”, ie the pensions paid to victims of work accidents and occupational diseases.
“Ambitious agreement” for the CFDT
The CFDT had very quickly decided to sign this “ambitious agreement” and its “social progress”. The CFTC followed suit on Thursday, despite some laments over the “absence of action” regarding “chemical hazards.”
Even more surprising, the CGT also announced its signing on Thursday, approving “a step” that “responds in part” to the “lack of resources and manpower” of the smaller branch of the Secu.
The other two unions are still waiting to decide. Force ouvrière “poursuit ses discussions” et devrait trancher “en début de semaine prochaine”, selon son negociateur Eric Gautron, so that the CFE-CGC statuera sur le subject le 27 juin, indicate they are approved by Mireille Dispot, who gives them favorable notice in internal.
But the agreement is already validated, the three signatories weigh together more than 50% at the national level, which prevents the others from opposing it.
Therefore, the ball will quickly pass to the field of the government, which has promised to “faithfully transcribe” the agreements concluded between the business organizations and the unions. Like that of “shared value”, the subject of a bill presented last week in the Council of Ministers.
Source: BFM TV
