The Elysee will face a new day of likely massive mobilization

"It is much too short", "account does not", "this is starting to move, but very very slowly... Union leaders all marked, yesterday, their disappointment at the outcome of the social Summit. Jean-Claude Mailly (FO) stressed that "there are important omissions, such as youth who have not worked two months and which have nothing" and deplored "estoppel on the minimum wage, the negotiations on the minima of branches or the moratorium on deletions of posts" in the public service. "The Trade Union action allowed a first inflection in government policy." The few measures announced today (...) go in this direction. "But faced with the situation of employees, the measures are insufficient," insists François Chérèque (CFDT), which also denounced the refusal of employers to discuss sharing wealth which "shows his inability to understand the meaning of the crisis" and the Government will not revisit the tax shield and the tax exemption of overtime to fund measures. "An effort has been made in the direction of small families, but the account is not", also believes Jacques neighbour (CFTC). Noting that the State will spend "only" 2.6 billion to social measures when the only removal for professional tax business will cost 8 billion, Bernard Thibault (CGT) insists that "the balance is not to our advantage".

Meeting Monday

Therefore, main power plants confirmed, without surprise, their willingness to organize a new event on the date, previously arrested last week, March 19. The Inter-Union will meet Monday to formally stop this position and, especially, to discuss the modalities of this day of action that will follow the January 29. "As trade union action begins to pay (...), must continue to put pressure on the Government and employers to get to a real change of direction", says François Chérèque. "Management is particularly closed and uncompromising, going to have to push hard to really change the situation in employment, wages, and consideration of employees," said Bernard Thibault.

Side business, Laurence Parisot has reiterated that "companies are part of the first victims of the crisis" and said that, negotiations three major recent (unemployment insurance, vocational training, partial unemployment), companies have put on the table of social EUR 1.5 billion. " More generally, feared Medef President, despite the establishment of a Committee to monitor the responses to the crisis, that "it will be creating a gas plant social, without the effectiveness that expect the French". In the redistribution of profits, it welcomed the study launched by the Elysee, mission but "discussions take place each year in companies, there can be with the unions at the national level". Jean-François Roubaud (CGPME) is, him, delighted that the Elysee and Matignon have "is careful not to penalize more SME and VSE", avoid to funding companies.

The Elysee will face a new day of likely massive mobilization. Is not a surprise: for several days, the Executive knew such an inevitable outcome as it is too early, at the seen expectations raised by the events of January 29, to ensure that trade unions emerge from their protest postures. And the Government, the priority is mainly to avoid an unmanageable flitter as in Guadeloupe (Union leaders also strongly pressed for a quick gesture in the direction of trade unions in the West Indies). In this context, a day of action Sundial discontent all thus appears as a lesser evil, preferable to scattered anger kicked or a stream of sectoral claims.

Find a progressive output

The objective of the Government rest instead of cracking the Union front and find a phasing out of the crisis. It attempts to rely on the CFDT, which, as he puts more forward the issues of employment and purchasing power. And, for the moment, it is also an advantage to remain in the intersyndicale: it is channeling the temptations of radicalization. The reform Central is well aware of his pivotal role and account, this time to take advantage. More question prevents, to endorse new too conciliatory Union costume and isolating itself, as in 2003, on the reform of the pension or in recent weeks on unemployment insurance.