The national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, spent more than an hour in Matignon on Saturday to ask, among other things, for the indexation of salaries to inflation.
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Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, was received in Matignon, Saturday February 3, with 200 pay slips under his arm and accompanied by four employees barely above the minimum wage, as part of his operation “Truth about salaries “.
“It’s not communication, it’s concrete. It’s lives, faces, people, families”, says Fabien Roussel, to franceinfo, a few steps from Matignon. On a large platform, boxes filled with pay slips and petitions sit.
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34 years of seniority and 1,486 euros salary
Among these faces, four employees accompany the national secretary of the PCF. Their story: a career spanning several decades but salaries that barely change. Like that of Soumaya, who brings with her a pocket of pay slips from her colleagues. She is an employee of Monoprix in the textile department, CGT unionized: “Look at the seniority: 34 years, that makes him 1,486 euros net, 21 years, 1,440 euros net… We were on the front pages of the newspapers when it was Covid, we were highlighted. But since the Covid, that’s it, we’re no longer talking about these people.”
Her colleague, Lamia, is a single mother. She receives less than 2,000 euros per month: “We live day by day, we no longer have dreams. We have to calculate. I have a 16-year-old child, he needs a phone, he needs sneakers, support lessons. ..” The small group rushes to Matignon.
On the way out, after an hour and a quarter of interview with the Prime Minister’s office, Soumia and Lamia have the feeling of stepping out of the ring: “It was really eye to eye. They were a little embarrassed. They said they were going to study the file, we’ll see what happens…”
“Be careful, it can still crack”
No progress on wage indexation, on inflation, nor on a new social conference – what Fabien Roussel is calling for – but a report on which two economists are working and which will be delivered in June for “de-microcardize France”, as Gabriel Attal wants. “We’re not there yet”comments the elected communist.
A drop in the ocean for the boss of the communists who boasts of being a whistleblower since 2018: “We met Edouard Philippe and told him ‘It’s not possible, it’s going to break’ and, a few months later, we had the yellow vests. I said the same thing today: ‘Be careful, it can still break down if you don’t act immediately on purchasing power.” After his call to invade the prefectures a few months ago, here he is raising the possibility of blocking the roads like the farmers, for better wages.