Toulouse: Airbus employees on strike for their salaries
This Tuesday, around sixty Airbus employees were on strike outside the group’s headquarters in Blagnac. Several unions deplore the insufficient increase in wages announced by the management of Europe’s leading aircraft manufacturer.
Responding to the call of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT), several dozen employees gathered this Tuesday at 10 a.m. in front of the headquarters of Airbus SAS. Similar movements took place at Airbus Defense & Space in Palays and at Airbus Operations. The unions consider “shocking”, the proposal made by the management to increase wages by 6.2% over the next two years. “In 2020, there was no increase,” recalls Marc Baillion, CFDT union representative at Airbus SAS. “In 2021, we had 1% while inflation was 2.8%. And this year, inflation is already at more than 4%,” says Marc. The CGT and the CFDT are thus demanding a 6.5% increase in 2022 alone, in order to compensate for inflation and to promote career development, and denounce “the freezing of wages over two years”. Nicolas works in technical support. Arrived in 2019, he is afraid of losing his job during the social adaptation plan. Four colleagues eventually left his service. Today, it is recruiting … again four people. “It’s cynical”, judge a unionized employee at the CGT.