Toulouse: Tisséo’s bluff which worries unions and employees
The questioning of inflation indexing by the management of Tisséo Voyageurs has mobilized the unions of the Toulouse transport authority and the group Alternative Métropole Citoyenne.
Safeguard clause. This clause issued by the unions of the Tisséo transport authority in 2008 provides for a catch-up of the inflation caused each year in January on the salaries and bonuses of Tisséo employees.
But this year, the management, plagued by difficulties linked to the rise in energy prices (the electricity bill would have increased from 13 to 33 million euros in 2022, i.e. an additional cost of 20 million euros for Tisséo) told the four representative unions (CFDT, CGT, FNCR and Sud) that it “was not in a position to pay the safeguard clause”.
A bonus of €500 and a 3% increase
And management to offer a bonus of 500 euros and only 2% increase, in addition to 1% increase, within the framework of the mandatory annual negotiation, and a bonus of 175 euros offered in March.
“If inflation is 6%, the safeguard clause makes it possible to adjust the increase to inflation on January 1, 2023, i.e. a 5% increase in salaries and bonuses”, explains Frank Delpérier of the FNCR. “Employees cannot lose purchasing power”.
Proposal rejected by unions
The four signatory unions of the agreement of March 23, 2022, including the safeguard clause, unanimously rejected the proposal of the management of Tisséo, described by some as a “bluff”. A distribution of leaflets at Tisséo bus depots caused traffic disruptions on Wednesday morning.
For its part, the group Alternative Métropole Citoyenne of the mayor of the Union, Marc Péré, brings its “support to the protest of the employees of Tisséo Voyageurs”, considering that, for the employees, “it is the double penalty, of the wages low and hellish rates because the management does not hire enough. Some of them do 7-hour rounds without any breaks to eat, relax or go to the bathroom. This wage austerity, and this return on a given signature, have one and only one origin: the financing of the third line”.