“The environment is too important to be limited to ‘blabla'”, lambasted the general secretary of the CGT. The national interprofessional agreement (ANI) negotiated between unions and employers on the question of taking into account the ecological transition in companies does not change “nothing”, estimated this Friday Sophie Binet.
“The agreement on environmental issues, we do not sign it, because if there was no agreement it would not change anything, and for us an agreement must bring more”, she said. explained, guest of Ajis (Association of journalists of social information). “When you measure the environmental issues, it’s shameful to make an agreement of this level”. Ultimately, only the CFDT and the CFTC signed it, FO and the CFE-CGC having also declared themselves dissatisfied with the conclusions of the agreement.
A “trade union plan for the environment”
The Medef announced on April 12 that it had reached an ANI with several trade unions, speaking of “a valuable and useful, effective, operational roadmap for the social partners to be able to consider and accelerate the ecological transition within companies and branches as well as in the territories”.
Sophie Binet also announced that the authorities of the CGT had validated the fact of “building a union plan for the environment”, on which its executive committee will work next week. “The idea is to say that in each territory, profession, company, we deal with the environmental issue. Thus, we closely link social issues and environmental issues.
The collective Never again in question
She finally returned to the links of the CGT with Never again, the collective of unions, associations and NGOs created in the time of Philippe Martinez to tackle social and environmental issues head-on, the subject of strong criticism at the CGT. “We are going to meet the organizations with which we had worked with Never again, to discuss the consequences” since “The CGT congress has decided to end Never again,” she said.
“It is a decision that obviously we will respect and implement. But the CGT congress validated the fact that we continue to work on environmental issues in conjunction with NGOs and other trade unions. So, when we meet Never again, we will discuss with them how we can, or not, continue to work together, ”said the number one of the CGT.