Caisse Régionale d'Aquitaine just experienced two days of strike. Whatever the engagement, a movement of this kind is always a serious moment that calls attention of leaders.
The theme of working conditions strongly promoted by the social partners is clearly a topic that deserves not only reflection but also action. What we are doing.
However, this movement has highlighted that, in the same way that some issues are not always sufficiently integrated by the leaders of other, fundamental, should prevail in the minds of employees and their representatives throughout the I call the "economic conscience."
The role of unions is to defend and represent the interests of employees. They must support policies that ensure the sustainability of the business, activities and jobs of their business. The customer can thus rely on the employee as their interests are closely related . The strategy implemented in our company is moving in that direction. Despite exceptional measures of compensation, it was still perceived by some as being their disapproval. Yet she does not pursue a single objective: the long-term sustainability of the company. This continuity, beyond its economic dimension clearly has a social dimension. That allow the one who becomes an employee of our company to be able, if it suits him, of exercising a profession for life. Not necessarily the same job, because life changes, and the company must anticipate these changes. The social dimension is inseparable from the strong economic performance but that condition.
It is I think the responsibility of all including trade unions to try to popularize the concept of economic conscience.
France is a country probably atypical in this regard, it is also a European country where the rate of union is the lowest.
