The “angry” clerks are calling for a national strike this Monday, July 3 to protest against a salary increase project and denounce the “contempt” which they believe has been the object of their profession for years. Several rallies are planned in front of the courts in Occitania.
The inter-union clerks expects the movement to be very popular. It is relayed in Occitania, in particular in Toulouse and Rodez (Aveyron) and it was already initiated at the end of last week in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne).
Often considered as the “little hands of Justice”, while they have an essential role in all procedures, the clerks ask the government for more consideration. Clerks are civil servants responsible in particular for checking the authenticity of the acts of magistrates.
“The idea is to blacken all the steps and the courtyard of the palace with black robes,” Hervé Bonglet, secretary general of Unsa Judicial Services (majority), told AFP. This mobilization began two weeks ago spontaneously, outside the unions, caused by a project for a new index grid which will disadvantage the clerks, they believe.
Last Monday, they gathered across France, with in particular 250 clerks and their supporters mobilized in Lyon, between 150 and 200 before the Paris court or a hundred in Marseille. On their placards, one could notably read “the calculations are not good”, or “in the face of contempt, anger”.
The intersyndicale had been received at the Ministry of Justice the same day, without obtaining any result.
Believing that no serious discussion on their claims had taken place, the UNSA Judicial Services, the CGT of the chancelleries and judicial services, SDGF-FO (Syndicat des greffiers de France) and the CFDT-Interco Justice regretted in a press release a common assessment “very insufficient and very laborious”. For its part, the Ministry of Justice recalled that the remuneration of clerks has increased in three years by 12%.
After Rodez this morning, a rally is planned for the beginning of the afternoon this Monday on the steps of the Toulouse courthouse. The intersyndicale has another meeting at the Chancellery this Tuesday, July 4. In a press release, the first presidents of the courts of appeal and the attorneys general said they hoped that the ongoing discussions “will make it possible to find a solution as to the evolution of the status as well as the remuneration” of the clerks, “essential for the proper functioning courts”.
(with AFP)
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