Purchasing power is a “essential concern in the world of work [qui] must become a subject in the campaign. Because it conceals another: low wages., Judge Laurent Berger, in a meeting to Sunday newspaper, Sunday, January 23. According to the union leader of the CFDT, this question is “ central “, in particular due to “the rise in inflation and a growing weight of constrained spending”.
Regretting “a form of disconnection from public debate, including media, with the reality experienced by citizens and with the daily lives of workers in particular”, the secretary general of the first French trade union believes that“the subject must be taken up to the height of the challenge and the challenge, it is not to start a battle of figures on the revaluation of the minimum wage”.
Aid paid to companies as a “lever”
Laurent Berger raises the question of “public aid paid to companies”, judging that the State “does not have to fill [leurs] deficiencies”. One of the ways to increase purchasing power would be, according to him, to“force the branches to increase their minima in the three months following a new rise in the minimum wage. Otherwise, there would be a financial penalty. » And to add:
“What is the lever of the state? The conditionality of the aid paid. It must also raise the value of the index point in the public service. »
Moreover, when asked regarding the hypothesis of the presence in the second round of Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen once morest Emmanuel Macron, Laurent Berger replies that the CFDT will call “to vote Macron as in 2017. We will also do so if it is Pécresse, Jadot, Hidalgo or any other candidate who qualifies in his place, to counter the far right. »
