The inter-union expects the movement to be very popular. The clerks intend to protest against a salary increase project and denounce the “ contempt which they claim has been the subject of their profession for years.
The clerks of the courts are called by all the unions to strike this Monday, July 3. They demand more resources. ” In French justice, we are on a real lack of resources at present. If we were on European standards like Italy, Portugal or Spain, we should be 39,000 court staff, including 11,000 clerks, but we are only 22,000. So we have a real lack of resources, castigates Hervé Bonglet, UNSA secretary general. We are calling for a total strike, that is to say for a system of justice that will not be able to function since, without a clerk, the hearings cannot be held because there are two main actors in a hearing: the magistrate, who says the law, and the clerk next door who checks the procedure. Without one of these two people, the judgment, the hearing cannot be held. »
The inter-union expects the movement to be very popular. A large gathering is notably planned in Paris, on the steps of the historic Paris courthouse, on the Ile de la Cité, from 10 a.m.
This mobilization began two weeks ago spontaneously, outside the unions, caused by a project for a new index grid which will disadvantage the clerks, they believe.
“ Face contempt anger »
Last Monday, they gathered across France, with in particular 250 clerks and their supporters mobilized in Lyon, between 150 and 200 before the Paris court or a hundred in Marseille. Their placards read: the calculations are wrong “, Or ” in the face of contempt anger “.
The intersyndicale had been received at the Ministry of Justice the same day, without obtaining any result. Believing that no serious discussion on their claims had taken place, the UNSA Judicial Services, the CGT of the chancelleries and judicial services, SDGF-FO (Syndicat des greffiers de France) and the CFDT-Interco Justice regretted in a press release common balance sheet very insufficient and very laborious “. For its part, the Ministry of Justice recalled that the remuneration of clerks has increased in three years by 12%. The intersyndicale has another meeting at the Chancellery on Tuesday morning.
In a press release, the first presidents of the courts of appeal and the attorneys general said they hoped that the ongoing discussions ” make it possible to find a solution as to the evolution of the status as of the remuneration “of the clerks, “ essential for the proper functioning of the courts “.