The CGT of François-Tosquelles joins the national strike of the federation of health and social action

Les agents dénonçaient notamment une note de service. Midi Libre – Correspondant

Une quarantaine d'agents s'est rassemblée, ce jeudi 8 février 2024, à 14 h, sur le site de Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole. 

Thursday, February 8, the CGT union at the François Tosquelles hospital center (CHFT) joined the call for a national strike by the union's health and social action federation. A gathering was organized at 2 p.m. in front of the castle. This brought together around forty agents working across the entire department.

The CGT of the CHFT, in order to be heard, had called for a unitary movement. The secretary of the union, Lisa Langlet, indicated the demands on the local level, denouncing "a contemptuous managerial policy, leveling down working conditions and others. welcome". She requested the withdrawal of the last memo "travel expenses, travel times" and better consideration of requests and observations of agents allowing the construction of a coherent and humane establishment project.

Concerning the demands on the national level, the CGT of François-Tosquelles is also mobilizing against "the deterioration of the health and social action system". It demands an increase in the budgets of social health and medical establishments in the framework of the parliamentary debate on the finance bill to allow the increase in salaries and staff numbers.

Suspension of contested memo

The CGT says: for the revaluation of salaries and careers of all from a minimum wage of 2,000 € ; for the reduction of precarious employment, with the generalization of tenure for vacant positions; for recruitment that meets needs; for safe, quality care; against all bed closures;  to meet the needs of the populations; for the repeal of waiting days; for retirement at 60 and recognition of arduousness leading to retirement at 55; for the revaluation of overtime… And for the regularization of Practitioners qualified outside the European Union (Padhue) and the repeal of the immigration law.

The director of the CHFT Christophe Verduzier declared that he had informed the participants in this demonstration that he had “suspended the application of the contested memo& ;quot;.