eight unions demand “significant” increases by May 1

The unions are calling for mobilization against the pension reform on May 1, but other demands are added to the menu. The eight representative organizations of the public service demanded, Wednesday, April 26, salary increases “important” and applicable from Labor Day.

These eight unions (CGT, FO, CFDT, Unsa, FSU, Solidaires, CFE-CGC and FA-FP) “require important general measures, for all civil servants as well as for all non-tenured”they wrote in a press release.

An increase in the salaries of civil servants “is all the more urgent and essential in the current context of galloping inflation”, they argue. The inflation rate reached nearly 6% over one year in March according to INSEE. Despite the general increase of 3.5% granted in the summer of 2022, after years of pay freezes, the 5.7 million public officials “experience an extremely degraded situation“, they worry.

The Minister in charge of the Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini, launched discussions with the unions in February, which relate in particular to remuneration and career development in the civil service. The government has already undertaken to increase the lowest salaries in the civil service on May 1, so that they do not fall below the Smic, which will increase by 2.2% at the beginning of next month in repercussion of inflation.