Health, nursing homes, freight… The CGT’s demands in Lozère will remain multiple this year

Guillaume Martin (left) and Nicolas Hinderschiett are carrying the Lozère demands. MIDI LIBRE – Lola Pesquié

Guillaume Martin, the general secretary of the CGT of Lozère and Nicolas Hinderschiett, member of the office of the departmental union, met this Tuesday, January 14, 2025 to pronounce their wishes and address the challenges of this new year.

“Racism, anti-Semitism, sectarianism, fascism…” Quote “everything that the CGT hates”, this is a good way to clarify things for Guillaume Martin, the general secretary of the CGT of Lozère, at the start of the year.

Meeting with Nicolas Hinderschiett, member of the departmental union office, this Tuesday, January 14, 2025, the latter took the opportunity to take stock of the current national and local situations and express his wishes for this new year.

Wishes for peace

“The major wishes that we want to make this year are wishes for peace, declared the general secretary, between Russia and Ukraine and Palestine. The damage is staggering. As a humanitarian organization like ours, we cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that babies are currently dying of hunger or cold.”

The CGT is now part of the Palestine Lebanon 48 collective, for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, and will be present every month at the various gatherings that will be organized in favor of this cause.

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Multiple demands

The unionist cited the various demands made by the organization at the national level: providing resources to our public services and our social protection, implementing emergency measures for employment and industry, including a moratorium on layoffs and the dismantling of SNCF freight, the repeal of the pension reform, the increase “ultra-urgent” of minimum wage and index point salaries, and finally the development of all the means necessary to rebuild Mayotte.

The head of the Lozère organisation would like a “response to the social emergency” to “prevent the government from falling again.”

The latter then recalled the two major axes of demands within the department: health (remuneration of carers, working conditions, etc.) and nursing homes, because prices are increasing and causing concern. “ Who will be able to afford a retirement home in the future, when we know the average incomes.”

Nicolas Hinderschiett, member of the CGT office but also of the association for the protection and defense of the Béziers-Neussargues line, concluded by discussing the subject of freight and industry in Lozère. “The fate of the line is intrinsically linked to the fate of the ArcelorMittal factory.” This factory represents, in direct employment, 200 people. “There is a lack of staff and technical and human investments to guarantee the proper functioning of the line.”

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