Almost as if nothing had happened … At the end of the negotiation meeting between social partners, Thursday evening March 20, unions and employers wanted not to have heard the words of François Bayrou on Sunday, opposing any return to a retirement age of 62 years. And, despite the departures in recent days of the … Read more
Fini the « conclave ». The word of François Bayrou, too religiously connoted, made smile and seemed to be not very suitable while Pope Francis is hospitalized. He gave way to the “Permanent joint delegation”more technical expression but which represents better the reality of meetings where unions and employers will meet to discuss the future … Read more
Did the Alliance union wanted to test, in the street, the power it can exercise on a minister who arrived at business less than five months ago? In any case, Bruno Retailleau came to pay a visit, Tuesday, February 4, to the demonstration organized before the National Assembly by this professional organization. A rally of … Read more
Farmers will vote from Wednesday to elect their representatives to the chambers of agriculture, a ballot with unprecedented resonance which will determine the new balance of power between unions having all gained visibility since last winter’s crisis. Some two million voters – active or retired farmers, but also employees and landowners – are invited to … Read more
The unions representing the public service, received this week by the new minister Laurent Marcangeli, welcome a displayed desire “appeasement”without however having obtained guarantees on the future of the contested measures. ” I love you “had launched Laurent Marcangeli to public officials when he took office at the end of December, aware of arriving at … Read more
The state of the Ouigo trains worries the unions, who denounce a low-cost logic taken to the extreme to the detriment of the quality of service, while the SNCF wants to see this subsidiary ramp up in the next two years. “To put an end to the +wrecks+ Ouigo”: a press release from the CGT-Cheminots, … Read more
Kick-off of the campaign for elections to the chambers of agriculture, this Tuesday, January 7. It will continue until January 30. The 2.2 million voters registered on the electoral lists will have from January 15 to 31 to vote by mail or online. This stage will be the first of these elections. Farmers will elect … Read more
All the elements come together to make this one of the big political-industrial issues of this new year. In an open letter sent Friday, January 3 to Emmanuel Macron, unions, employers and several elected officials ask the President of the Republic to intervene to save the Fonderie de Bretagne (FDB), while Renault, its former owner … Read more
This article was originally published in German IG Metall speaks of the “Christmas miracle of Hannover”: VW centers have been secured and forced layoffs, plant closures and income cuts have been avoided. ADVERTISING After more than 70 hours of marathon negotiations, the union IG Metall has reached a salary agreement with management from the car … Read more
“The instability into which our country has fallen poses the risk of an economic crisis with dramatic social consequences. » The words chosen on Tuesday, December 17 by employers’ and trade union organizations (with the exception of the CGT) to challenge elected officials are all the stronger as the social partners rarely speak together to … Read more