000 demonstrators “who mobilized through the Hexagon on Tuesday, which would make it the largest mobilization of civil servants since the election of Francois Hollande.
Philippe Martinez Jean-Claude Mailly and , leaders of the CGT and FO respectively, with Solidarity called the 5.6 million public servants to demonstrate, both stressed that they were fighting for the purchasing power of employees . It is “the mobilization on wages when the employers and the government are trying to blame the employees on labor costs,” said Martinez told reporters. “We are talking about cost of capital, the government talks of labor costs,” said the CGT leader. “231 billion of dividends paid to shareholders in 2014: it would be better used to create jobs in the public service,” said he continued
The Department of Public Service gave ’3. % of strikers “in the noon and 10.9% in the Territorial State civil service (teachers included). Education side, 22.3% of teachers were on strike in colleges, according to ministry figures (50% according to the first union), and 12.24% of primary school teachers (33% union source). “Between 25 and 30% in public finances”, according to unions. Employment center gave 3.55% of strikers.
Mailly, justified this action day by two main motivations, “the problem of purchasing power of civil servants and the need to have the means to do their job. ” “Let the President does not forget that there is a republican pact”, he started.
While the unions are demanding the revaluation of the index point, which is the basis for calculation of their salary has been frozen since 2010, marylise lebranchu has left them little hope. Asked about France 2 in the morning, the Minister of Civil Service announced that “there will not be a big increase in the index points because we’re in a difficult situation,” even though she assured “hear “the claims of civil servants.
” Austerity Enough, “” For the public service, employment, wages “,” Increase salaries, not the shareholders “have answered this Tuesday afternoon the banners and slogans of the Paris demonstration. In the Parisian procession, Marielle, a school teacher in Coignieres (Yvelines), is there for a wage increase. “We’re still talking about Germany, so be like (teachers, Ed) in Germany, paid double.”
Boulevard des Invalides, near the procession of demonstrators, some people dressed as convicts with white suits with black stripes shouted: “Trade unionists, not terrorists,” in support of Goodyear employees convicted or those of Air France who were dismissed. Personal public-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) showed in blue and white blouses. Elodie, a nurse at St. Louis, protested “against wages frozen for five years,” but also against the reform of 35 hours required by the Director of the AP-HP. The hospital “already turns lean and it will be worse and worse for patients.” And, “we are all future patients,” she says.
A hundred processions in the province
In the provinces of raw events also gathered several thousands of people in the 110-120 processions planned, including teachers, mobilized against the college reform.
In Marseille, between 3,600 and 10,000 people, according to estimates, demonstrated in the center. They were more than a thousand in Nice, including teachers came to say “no to the reform of college” and hospital workers opposing the “law health.” They were several hundred in Corsica in Ajaccio and Bastia.
The protests have also mobilized in Toulouse (2200-6000) when the head of the procession stood banner “Against austerity, employment , wages, public outreach, “Tarbes (700 and one thousand) and Perpignan (1000-3000).
In the Great Western, the largest demonstrations took place in Rouen, Nantes ., Brest and Tours
In Lille, the protesters chanted: “public, private, same fight, not shareholders to the law, true democracy, it is here”, ” There ras-le-bol of these horns that close factories and schools are closing. ” Nurses, midwives, retired librarians, cooks, many railway workers were demanding “wage increases”.
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