Strikes in schools, rallies in front of the CHUV and regional hospitals, civil servants by the thousands in the street. Since December, the canton of Vaud has been living to the rhythm of the days of mobilization of the public service, which is demanding better indexation than the 1.4% proposed by the Council of State in a global package. The situation is deadlocked following the government’s repeated desire not to open negotiations on this 2023 indexation. Despite a first meeting on February 23, dialogue is struggling to resume. This crisis between the State and its staff, the largest since 2013 and the question of the pension fund, might preempt several reforms at the start of the new legislature.
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How to get out of the impasse? Are the demands of the public service justified? Is the strike a proportionate means? Is the state doing enough for its civil servants, exhausted by the pandemic and the current lack of staff? To discuss it, La Télé and The weather brought together four deputies: Florence Bettschart-Narbel, president of the PLR, the ecologist Yolanda Müller Chabloz, also a public health doctor at Unisanté, the socialist Julien Eggenberger, president of the SSP union, and the UDC Fabrice Moscheni.
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