The FNSEA considers that the government’s promises have not been kept. Farmers are considering expressing their dissatisfaction, as are civil servants who are campaigning against the increase from one to three days of waiting time in the event of sick leave.
Farmers are preparing a new large-scale mobilization. Farmers express their anger locally. Strong actions took place in certain departments to alert public authorities to the difficulties the sector is still facing. But the mobilization will become national. The two majority unions, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, are calling for protests to resume in mid-November. On November 15, farmers will carry out actions throughout the territory. Without a rapid response from the State, some unions warn: they could very quickly toughen their tone and once again block roads and food freight. A difficult situation for professionals in the agricultural sector, who have already had a complicated year.
The heavy rains, which reduced cereal harvests by 40% and the mobilizations at the start of the year which remained unanswered, are going badly. This protest is taking place a few months before the professional elections in the agricultural sector, while the government claims to have implemented two thirds of the measures promised after the January protest.
Civil servants on the street
For the civil service, the FO and the CGT have called a strike. The two unions had been invited to a meeting with the Minister of Civil Service, Guillaume Kasbarian. The meeting was a failure. The minister wants to extend the waiting period for the civil service to three days, compared to one currently. “We will take the minister’s game at its word: three days of waiting time, three days of strike,” replied the secretary general of the UIAFP-FO, Christian Grolier. The day of the strike movement has not yet been communicated, but union leaders have raised the possibility of mobilization “at the beginning of December”.