The Social Security budget will be unveiled in a few days. In the hope of “weighing” on the budget and a week before the inter-union day on wages, the CGT and its allies are calling for a mobilization on Thursday in the health sector. The date has been fixed for three months, the requirements have not changed for years. Salaries, staff, working conditions…
“We are not heard on the legitimate demands that we are making,” lamented the general secretary of the CGT-Santé, Mireille Stivala, during a press conference on Tuesday. Thursday will therefore aim to “weigh on the Social Security financing bill”, which must be presented Monday in the Council of Ministers, with the assurance of a relay of communist and rebellious battalions to the Assembly.
Divided union landscape
“We have parliamentarians who are listening to us and who will fight to try to modify” the text, she said. No or few demonstrations to be expected, however, the union favoring local gatherings, in front of hospitals, prefectures or regional health agencies (ARS) – in Paris the meeting is given at 1 p.m. in front of the former headquarters of the Paris Hospitals .
A mobilization that will serve as a warm-up before the day of action on September 29 on wages. With an equally divided trade union landscape: the CGT-Santé will not have the support of SUD this time, while FO, the CFDT and the Unsa have scheduled their own day of action on the 27th. These three organizations had already distanced themselves by signing the salary agreements of the “Ségur de la santé” in 2020. Today “they decide to set in motion three months before the professional elections” in the hospital public service, noted Mireille Stivala, leaving few hope for a return to “pre-Covid broad unity”.