The unions are arriving with quantified demands on the minimum wage. The CGT is calling for a 10% increase, or about 150 euros net per month. The CFDT is asking for 100 euros. Excluded from this social conference, the civil service unions will be received on Friday, November 13 at Matignon. They are calling for the unfreezing of the index point, the basis for calculating civil servants' gross pay.
On Saturday, November 7, about a hundred protesters defied a prefectural ban to gather at Place de la Concorde in Paris and near the Élysée and the National Assembly. Two spokespersons of the movement were taken into custody.
The prime minister is receiving the social partners on Monday morning at Matignon, as a social movement continues and the executive seeks a way out on purchasing power and wages.
This index point was frozen from 2011 to 2015, unfrozen in 2016 and then in 2017, before being blocked again.