An extra 1.3% for the first year, for a total of 10.3% over 5 years – pathetic. Another slap in the face for 420,000 Front commun workers. Too little, too late. It’s an insult. Front commun workers are done with turning the other cheek.
Even though 100,000 people turned out in the streets to support the Front commun on September 23, even though a mandate for an unlimited general strike was adopted with 95% in favour, even though a first day of strike action has been announced, once again the mountain has given birth to a mouse. The government still wants to decide everything on its own and impose its will, a habit it’s developed since it was first elected in 2018.
This offer shows us, again, that the government simply doesn’t understand the problems experienced in public services or the urgency of saving a ship that is about to sink. It is also utterly disconnected from workers’ anger as they continue, despite their exhaustion, to carry the weight of fragile public services on their shoulders.