Will the Olympic and Paralympic Games be disrupted by strikes? Several French unions have filed notice in the public service from this Monday until September 15. Period which therefore covers those of the Games. The unions, very angry against the Minister of the Civil Service who wants to facilitate the dismissals of civil servants, want social and salary advances. Particularly for public employees directly impacted by the Games.
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“ No Olympic truce “, this is the slogan displayed by the CGT which filed strike notices on April 10 which “ concern all health workers, local authorities and the State » specified Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT, on April 10. “ The filing of notice covers the period from April 15 to September 15, 2024 “. It therefore concerns the Paris Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) and the Paralympics (August 28-September 8). The goal is not to block France this summer, we assure from the first public service union, but to obtain concessions by the month of July.
Concessions for civil servants mobilized or constrained by the Olympic Games. This is the case, for example, for customs officers, garbage collectors or public hospital employees.
“ Some of them will not be able to take leave either during the month of July or during the month of August. They will have a very significant increase in activity, almost seven days a week during this period. We cannot want, on the one hand, the Games which are going very well and, on the other hand, mistreat the workers who will be hired to organize the Olympic Games. », explains Céline Verzeletti, at the microphone of Baptiste Coulonfrom the French service.
With Force Ouvrière, another mobilized union, the CGT wants to put pressure on the Ministry of Civil Service with three objectives: recruitment, financial compensation, and arrangements for childcare for example.
No national demonstrations are planned at this time.
But the unions operate in scattered order. Neither the UNSA nor the CFDT – respectively the 3rd and 4th unions in the public service – are calling for mobilization. At the beginning of March, its general secretary had even almost closed the door to a strike notice covering the Games. “ We have no desire to spoil this festive moment », declared Marylise Léon.