Municipal Police – @Hugo LAUBEPIN
While negotiations continue to upgrade the compensation plan for municipal police officers, the FO union deplores the absence of physical interactions, particularly with elected officials. of the City of Lyon.
In a letter sent in particular to elected officials of the City of Lyon, the Force Ouvrière union Municipal Police of Lyon accuses the City of “disregard social dialogue“. A strike notice had been filed by the FO and CFTC unions, after an inappropriate and insufficient re-evaluation, according to them, of the municipal police compensation system.
The two unions have been fighting since 2022, the year of their first increase in ten years, to obtain new increases. “But the mayor of Lyon (Grégory Doucet: Editor’s note) leaves only crumbs for field agents“, deplores Bertrand, representative of FO Municipal Police. For its part, the City of Lyon explains that “the dialogue is still ongoing and ensures interest in the working conditions of municipal agents“As a reminder, it was the Lyon councilor who pushed with the State to obtain an uncapping of the salary scale for municipal police officers.
Following their recent filing of strike notice, FO and CFTC were received by videoconference by the City administration. “At the same time, we received a proposal to hold a Technical Social Committee (CST) exclusively remotely. These practices must be denounced with the greatest firmness“, writes the FO union in its letter.
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Unions “despised and invisibilities”
These practices, namely “the absence of physical interactions, dematerialized exchanges and virtualization of instances“, are considered unacceptable by the representative. “Would you accept, elected officials, a completely dematerialized and virtualized municipal council?” also questions the union’s letter. The municipal policeman continues: “It is not possible, it is a democratic foundation to meet and discuss. (…) The unions are despised and invisible.”
At the same time, negotiations must still continue to establish a new compensation regime before January 1. All in a context of budgetary austerity for communities.
Concerning the difficulties of dialogue highlighted this Tuesday, FO Municipal Police does not rule out an extension of the movement with the support of other public service unions, knowing that “the observation is shared”. “We therefore call on all elected officials and civil servants of the City of Lyon to mobilize against this trend”concludes FO in its letter.
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