strong mobilization announced by Pôle emploi employees
Tuesday, February 1, a strong mobilization is expected from the employees of Pôle emploi. Indeed, all the unions, either the CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT, FO, SNAP. SNU, STC, SOUTH and Unsa, respondent to the strike. A great first for the sector.
Agents, private and public, claim a salary increasea improvement of their working conditionsas well as’reinforcement of the workforce.
“Our work no longer has meaning”
“The biggest problem is based on the loss of the meaning of work, but also on the deterioration of working conditions and the reception of users”, laments Spanish Sylviacentral trade union representative of the CGT Employment center 31. Asked by The Independent Opinionthe trade unionist is part of everyday life more and more difficult agents.
Employees are under pressure caused by a stack of government mechanisms such as plans for the long-term unemployed, training plans, plans for young people, and in parallel the strengthening of controls. This feeling of piling up devices without there being any link between them, feeds the loss of sense of the profession. The only thing that counts is the result of government actions and not the situation of the unemployed”, criticizes the union representative of the CGT Pôle emploi 31.
Another claim, the salary increase. Since four years, index point freeze a block salary negotiations for both private and public agents. A freeze that led to a loss of purchasing power of 20% since 2000. “For private agents, the loss of purchasing power in relation to the cost of living amounts to more than 10% since 2008“says Sylvie Espagnolle.
More staff
currently, the Haute-Garonne lists approximately 1,000 employment center agents. According to the CGT, the blocking of staff resulting from government measures contributes to the current tension in the agencies. During the recruitment campaign, the union believes that it does not feel a lack of applications, “the problem comes mainly from the ceiling imposed by the State”, estimates Sylvie Espagnolle.
We are asking for a larger number of permanent and trained staff. Currently, we have a lot of fixed-term contracts, whose training is not required complete because of the frequent turnover”, details the trade unionist.
In Toulouse, the Occitanie regional employment center directorate in Balma will welcome the inter-union delegation tomorrow at 10 a.m. At the end of the discussions, the unions decide on the future of the mobilization, which could be renewed.
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