Social security: a majority of unions sign the agreement on accidents at work

The text, submitted for signature since mid-May after ten months of discussions, provides in particular for a takeover by the social partners of the AT-MP branch, now managed by Health Insurance.

Unions and employers thus intend to distribute themselves the surpluses of this fund, almost entirely financed by employers' contributions and which must generate more than 2 billion euros in surplus this year, out of a budget of 17 billion.

A windfall in which the government will already draw more than a billion from 2024 to finance its pension reform. The social partners want to use the remainder to increase spending on prevention and "improve compensation", that is to say the pensions paid to victims of work-related accidents and illnesses.

The CFDT had very quickly decided to sign this "ambitious agreement" and its "social progress". The CFTC did the same on Thursday, despite some regrets about the "absence of measures" concerning "chemical risks".

More surprisingly, the CGT also announced its signing on Thursday, approving "a step" which "partially responds" to the "lack of resources and manpower" of the smallest branch of Social Security.

The other two unions are still waiting to decide. Force Ouvrière "continues its discussions" and should decide "early next week", according to its negotiator Eric Gautron, while the CFE-CGC will rule on the subject on June 27, indicates its counterpart Mireille Dispot, who issued a favorable opinion. internally.

But the agreement is already validated, the three signatories weighing together more than 50% at the national level, which prevents the others from opposing it.

The ball will therefore quickly pass into the camp of the government, which has promised to "faithfully transcribe" the agreements concluded between employers' organizations and trade unions. Like that on "value sharing", the subject of a bill presented last week in the Council of Ministers.