Clearly the State will be fi possible opposition

This was more than ten years that the unions of employees in the road transport of goods were not found to unite so. Results of the negotiation marathon last week - finally reached Friday, and to avoid blocking from last night of the great distribution-only warehouses should not make them regret this unit. "It cannot be said that we are dissatisfied with having received these wage increases without recourse to strike", welcomes Gerard Martinez, fo, present in the intersyndicale alongside of the CFDT, CGT, the CFE - CGC and CFTC. In the end, the agreement signed at the Department of transportation provides rising wages ranging from 4 (for the lowest wages in the mail) and 2.9 (for the great road). Travel costs will, themselves, be increased by 3, and a mutual should be generalized in 2010 to the 250 000salariés of the sector that were not previously.

The out of the crisis is made at the price of an explosion of Management Fund, since only TLF has signed the agreement. However, the Secretary of State for transport, Dominique Bussereau, assured Saturday that the accord "will be extended to the profession and the companies, signatories or not, will apply this agreement from the beginning of 2010."Clearly, the State will be fi possible opposition.

The three other employers (FNTR, ur and Unostra) indeed preferred slamming the door Thursday evening at the penultimate session of negotiations. The UR has denounced a text signed by a (TLF) organization representing all "major road and logistic transport to financial capital groups" and potentially "digging the grave of a very large number of SMEs in the sector in the next 12 months."Little more kind, FNTR to is surprised that the Government "can be satisfied with an agreement not signed by the main representative organisation of the sector", title is claimed. Meanwhile, TLF is forbidden to explaining successfully "challenge to defend the interests of the business while social dialogue now rewarding for the sector."

"Market of fools".

Resentment against the action of the State in this crisis should however quickly reconcile this small business world. "The Secretary of State for transport forced us to negotiate in the Emergency Department ...". "to not annoy the next Eve Turkey eaters", regretted the Unostra. A the FNTR, it denounced the "market of fools" proposed by the Government to carry the consent of TLF. Dominique Bussereau has indeed promised a reduction of social charges in the order of EUR 100millions (via an extension of Fillon relief on the equivalence of the trucking hours overtime) to convince employers to grant wage increases. "But this measure we had already been promised a month ago by the Secretary of State for transport to compensate for part of the carbon tax", was strangled on to FNTR.

The States General promised in early 2010 by Dominique Bussereau to tackle the structural problems of the road ahead therefore already heated. "Confidence has been updated with evil, we are going to be very carefully," ensures the FNTR. The stakes are still of importance, since it's completely review a collective tried another time by all parties. "This is not because an agreement was signed in 2009 that we give other wage negotiations for 2010", prevents Furthermore Gérard Martinez (FO).