The pension file continues to inflame the unions. Six days before the presentation of the reform by the government, the first three unions of civil servants – CGT, FO and CFDT – came out frustrated on Wednesday from their last meeting on the subject with the Minister of Public Service Stanislas Guerini.
“They (the members of the government) remain on their initial agenda and on what they have decided”, deplored Céline Verzeletti for the CGT, the first union of civil servants, after her meeting with the minister. During the previous series of meetings on pensions, “we had already said that we had proposals on long careers, the contribution base” for civil servants. However, Stanislas Guerini “does absolutely not bounce on what we proposed (…), the social dialogue is more and more degraded”, she assured.
Faced with this observation, the CGT launched the idea of an inter-union meeting bringing together the eight representative organizations of the public service on January 11, “on the question of pensions, remuneration and working conditions”, indicated the co-secretary General of the CGT for State Agents (UFSE-CGT). Second public union, received just after the CGT, FO however said that it was not yet certain to participate, like the CFDT also hosted at the Ministry of the Public Service.
The FGF-FO evokes “interesting arbitrations”
“Our main objective, we told the minister, is to defeat the reform”, insisted the secretary general of the FGF-FO Christian Grolier, who nevertheless mentioned certain “interesting arbitrations” mentioned by Stanislas Guerini at the course of the interview. The government would consider reintroducing a system of progressive retirement in the public service, more than ten years after the abolition (in 2011) of the progressive cessation of activity.
Other principles adopted a priori: the maintenance of the rules for calculating the pension of civil servants (based on the last six months of salary excluding bonuses) and the shift of the same number of years from the legal retirement age of civil servants and “active category” agents, who perform the most difficult jobs (nurses, police, etc.). As in the private sector, the unions are firmly opposed to the postponement of the legal retirement age, which could be raised by the government to 64 or 65 years, against 62 years currently.
A meeting is scheduled for Thursday with the Unsa-Public Service and bilateral exchanges with the four other representative unions (FSU, Solidaires, CFE-CGC, FA-FP) on Friday.