Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Road: wage negotiations progresses slowly – L’Express

Road: wage negotiations progresses slowly – L'Express

The social partners were gathered from early morning to the General Directorate of Labour, in Paris, to conclude the round of negotiations abruptly interrupted on January 20 on a “ finding of failure ” .

Under pressure from the government and the unions that led the blocking actions, employers had agreed to return one last time to the negotiating table on Tuesday, hoping to reach an acceptable agreement for all.

But after ten hours of fruitless dialogue, both sides decided in the evening that the negotiations should be “ interrupted until Monday, February 9 at 1:00 p.m. ‘, has told AFP Thierry Cordier, head of the CFDT Transport.

The employer bargaining “ must return with terms less austere ,” said Thierry Douine, the chairman of the CFTC Transport. The “ terms ” define the margins of negotiations with representatives of employers.

All day, management was adamant on increasing wage scales, refusing to give up 5% for all claimed by the unions.

His offer did not move for two weeks. It offers revaluations of 1 to 2% depending on the coefficients of the collective agreement, so that the lowest rock above the gross hourly minimum wage (€ 9.61 from 1 January 2015).

– ‘The time for reflection’ –

were more likely to win the lottery than having wage increases ,” had quipped Patrice Clos, general secretary of FO Transport Tuesday as negotiations continued.

During the latter, employers’ organizations, however, have shown “ few intentions ” likely to improve the income of drivers, according to Jerome Truth, the general secretary of the CGT Transport.

They have thus proposed to reduce the duration of illness deficiency May to March days and increase the level of annual remuneration Warranty (RBM), a conventional salary supplement paid at the end of year.

The employers also provides further contribute to the mutual complementary employees.

Unfortunately all this was rejected by the unions, it is obviously strongly deplores ” responded to AFP Nicolas Paulissen, General Delegate of the National Federation Road Transport (FNTR), bedroom main employers in the industry.

Recalling the “ difficult economic environment ” within which the French road hauliers, the leader “ hope that the unions will take the time to think “by Monday,” because we will not be able to go beyond “recent concessions.

We sought solutions – extending the issue of wages to purchasing power, try to find improvements on some points that could avancer- there there was a time when we will have to make a decision “slice there.

Since the beginning of mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), labor organizations require an increase of 100 euros in purchasing power for some 330,000 employees of road freight transport (figures from the joint body OPTL ).

100 euros on our purchasing power, it is not even 50% ” with the last employer proposals laments Thierry Douine. “ We are far from ” Patrice Clos abounds.

For more than two weeks, the Inter (CGT, FO, CFTC, CFE-CGC) continued on the ground the ongoing wrangle with management, multiplying blockades against big business road transport, adhering to professional associations.

The CFDT Transport majority, chose to go it alone by mobilizing on the single day of 28 January.

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