Three mediators to avoid the conflict of road

December 8th, 2009

The risk of a strike by truckers threaten to block the deposition of large retailers from next Sunday is taken very seriously by governments.

Moments after receiving the Department of Transportation delegated Inter (CFDT, CGT, CFE-CGC and CTFC) of 500 000 employees, the Secretary of State for Transport, Dominique Bussereau, has appointed a mediator, not as planned but three.

Members of the firm Mensia Council Martial Belon, Herv? Nadal Muir and Eric have the difficult task of finding common ground – including on wages – between truckers and their companies.

Unions want the transition to a wage of 10 euros gross per hour for the highest coefficients, 4% increase for executives and 4% more for travel or 13th month for free.Claims deemed unacceptable by the companies badly affected by the slowing economy.

Dominique Bussereau is optimistic. A schedule is considered. "I think some points of view can be reconciled, he said. We hope to reach a first agreement of good will to avoid blocking of deposits, then in a second stage, discussions will be conducted on other points from the start. We promise. "

Dating successive

At work since Monday evening, the facilitators meet successively unions and employer organizations.Wednesday morning, they will provide their preliminary findings at a meeting bringing together the two sides to the ministry, just before the Cabinet tomorrow.

The discussions will continue until agreement is reached, but the secretary general of the CFDT, Maxime Dumont, believes a quick solution. "The situation seems more committed than in the previous conflict two years ago, says he. The government invests. I think some employers' organizations have proposals to make to break the impasse. "

On the employee side, there is, however, still doubtful. "We are conducting a fight but in fact they are the companies that benefit from the advantages offered by the government," said Fr?d?ric B?rard (CFE-CGC). FO-Secretary-General Transport, Gerard Martinez is also on the reserve."How do we get in two days that we could not have in a year and a half?" He questioned Monday before resuming discussions with the mediators.

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