The strikers are calling for “a general increase in remuneration, significant and urgent” given “price increases” and “lost purchasing power”.
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About a quarter of the Pôle emploi agents were on strike at the call of the inter-union, Tuesday, February 1, according to management figures. The rate of participation in the movement launched by the 10 trade unions (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT, FO, SNAP, SNU, STC, SUD and Unsa) “is 23.3%”. Corn, “for more than a third of the strikers (36.5%), it is a one-hour walkout”she pointed out, specifying that only two agencies are closed out of the 900 in the network.
In front of the headquarters of Pôle emploi, where a hundred agents were demonstrating, the intersyndicale demanded “a general increase in remuneration, significant and urgent” considering “price increases” and “lost purchasing power”the last increase dating back to 2017. Proof of these low wages, according to the CFDT, “Half of Pôle emploi agents receive the inflation bonus of 100 euros”reserved for employees receiving less than 2,000 euros net monthly.
The unions also denounce the “tired” teams, generated by two years of health crisis, and “stacking” recent government measures (remobilization of the long-term unemployed, reform of unemployment benefits since the autumn or even deployment on March 1 of the Youth Employment Contract). If the operator has received reinforcements (3,400 additional positions in 2022 compared to 2019), the SNU-FSU estimates “that there are too many fixed-term contracts that need to be constantly trained”.