In Toulouse, hundreds of demonstrators pound the pavement to demand a wage increase
At 2:30 p.m., this Tuesday, October 18, behind a common banner “for our wages, for our pensions, for the right to strike”, at the call of the CGT 31 and FSU 31 in particular, several hundred demonstrators mobilized, Toulouse, for the salary increase. Franciline Costa, employed at Monoprix for twenty years, came, with her daughter, to swell the ranks of the procession that left the War Memorial. Elected CGT, she calls for a revaluation of the minimum wage. “For 18 years, I have been on the Smic and, in the last four years, I have had no personal increase,” she regrets. “And I’m not talking about the working conditions of the international group: work on Sunday mornings and early evenings and part-time work which concerns women and students. »
Next to Franciline, Cthi Cu. Also elected CGT, she works for the Casino supermarket, in Basso Cambo. “Inflation is high and it’s hard to finish the end of the month. I do with the means at hand, ”she explains. “I am in the street again, after the first round of heating, in September, to demand a salary increase. Employees of La Poste and SNCF as well as employees of Thales and Continental were among the demonstrators.
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