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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Road: failure of negotiations, possible cure from that … – Le Parisien

Jan 20 2015, 6:42 p.m. |. Update: 21 Jan 2015, 0:54

. They separated in the late afternoon on “a failure,” according to the National Federation of Road Transport (FNTR).

After this failure, the Inter (CGT, FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC), the cause of the ongoing strike in road transport, was initially called Tuesday night ” lift the barriers that night. ” A general meeting was scheduled for Wednesday morning. However, a meeting in 23 hours on Tuesday in the premises of the Ministry of Labour Quai André Citroën in Paris was canceled, employers who have not seen fit to move. So, in the evening, the CGT, through Jerome Truth, leader of the Federation of Transport, was again called to “harden the movement” this Wednesday morning and beat the recall of its troops, according to our information.

“No new mandatory annual negotiation session is planned” at this time, had said his side Nicolas Paulissen, General Delegate of the employers’ federation. “All the employer has left the room (negotiations) with the CFDT ‘first union of the profession, he said.

For its part, the CFDT says he” slammed the door “as she had done there is a month and a half in the previous unsuccessful negotiation before performing solo a” punch “operation at the toll of Saint-Arnoult (Yvelines). The union will contact its members during the day Wednesday to decide whether to mobilize or not.

For its part, the Inter CGT, FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC behind the strike underway since Sunday night to get a 5% increase in wages, did not wish to speak immediately.

On Tuesday night, says employers unable to commit beyond “1-2% increase.” “Companies do not have the capacity to award up to 5% revaluation” for all employees, as required by the union says General Delegate of the FNTR. He said the employers’ associations have made this Tuesday “proposals improved”. Namely, an increase of 2% for the lowest coefficients of the collective agreement and 1% for executives.

VIDEO. Road again mobilized

Since Sunday night, the call of the Inter several operations including blocking affect professional sites such as refineries, ports, logistics platforms or warehouses. On some main roads around the cities, filtering dams block only trucks, drivers undergoing usually simple slowdowns.