hauliers blocking the road to Bruges near Bordeaux, January 21, 2015 (AFP / Nicolas Tucat)
It is ultimately not. Several employer federations road transport, the main, refused Wednesday to participate in the negotiating session scheduled for Thursday morning with the unions, they now summing the State to intervene decisively.
“No new element now possible to resume negotiations in the best and hope the signing of an agreement, “announced in a joint statement the National Federation of Road Transport (FNTR) – bedroom main employers in the industry – , TLF and Unostra.
“This is why we have decided not to attend the meeting called” Thursday at 8:30 to Directorate General of Labour (15th arr.), Paris indicate they are.
The fourth federation present for these negotiations, the UR had not yet announced whether or not it would be this Thursday.
“We are not capacity to do better: our businesses are hit hard by the economic crisis and suffer from a serious lack of competitiveness, “say in their press release, the FNTR TLF and Unostra, recalling that the proposals Tuesday had “all been rejected.”
Contacted by AFP, the unions expressed their amazement, this scenario obviously has not been considered.
“The departments Labour and Transport had assured us they would be there “Thursday morning, reacted Jerome Truth for CGT Transport. “That’s what made us lift our camp” at the Directorate General of Labour, the Inter (CGT, FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC) who occupied part of the place in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Denouncing the attitude “diehard” of business, which is “pressure on the government (…) to go snatch the dough,” the CGT leader asked the Executive to intervene.
hauliers blocking the road near Bordeaux Bruges January 21, 2015 (AFP / Nicolas Tucat)
“At State to reverse the situation and announce the suspension of all public support for such companies, “he says.
On Thursday morning, the unions still travel to the Directorate General work, hoping that employers change my mind.
“It was a summons from the state, here we go,” said Patrice Clos (FO), then imitated by Thierry Cordier CFDT .
– The CFDT threat of a ‘major conflict’ –
“If they do not come, they will take their responsibility, and we ours,” the Secretary General CFDT Transportation, first union of the profession.
No member of the Inter-organizing blockages and snails operations since Sunday night, CFDT had threatened to “get into a major conflict” if organizations employers did not return to the negotiating table “in the coming hours.”
On Tuesday night, the Inter had briefly suspended the social movement, following the failure of talks, employers and CFDT who left the negotiating table
The unions were reversed their decision in the night, after the refusal of the employer bargaining to answer the “call” of the Chairman of the Joint Committee mixes. – a representative of the Ministry of Labour -. for a meeting Tuesday evening
On Wednesday morning, the Ministry of Labour had invited the social partners to a new round of talks on Thursday
hauliers blocking the road near Bordeaux Bruges January 21, 2015 (AFP / Nicolas Tucat)
The negotiations stumble the magnitude of the salary increase: Unions Call 5%, employers will not go beyond 2%
In the absence of agreement between unions and employers, minimum. Conventional remain those in force last year
In 2014, one of the four factors in road transport. – one of the most qualified employees – exceeded the minimum wage, set at 9.53 euros gross per hour . The minimum wage was raised to 9.61 euros on January 1.
Several actions were conducted Wednesday by road on strike small but capable of organizing consequent punching operations.
In the North, a go-slow on the A1 motorway caused very large caps in the morning, in the direction Lille-Paris.
In Bordeaux, a hundred strikers installed new filter dams in the cargo areas of Bègles (southeastern suburbs) and Bruges (northwest), after releasing the Cestas (south-west).
Protesters received in night “reinforcements” Locals Ford and CGT CGT Railwaymen but also transporters of funds and paramedics, according to Mark Rosa, head of the CGT Transport in the Gironde.
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