They were gathered at midday in front of the Ministry of Health.

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AFP

At the call of the CFDT, several hundred caregivers and medico-social personnel, the vast majority of home helpers, demonstrated on Tuesday to denounce their “wage poverty” and demand “strong upgrades”.

Gathered at midday in front of the Ministry of Health, these home employees, nursing assistants at the hospital or in nursing homes, and nurses - equipped with rain gear, chasubles and orange flags, the color of this union - chanted "we are there" or "salary increase for everyone".

"Lack of remuneration" and "burnout"

Coming from several cities in France, the demonstrators denounced on the signs: “Forgotten caregivers, angry caregivers” or “Stop throwing crumbs at us, we are not pigeons”.

“It's been years that our salaries have not moved, that working conditions have deteriorated,” lamented Lénaïck Flamant, home help.

In addition to the "lack of remuneration" and "professional exhaustion", this 57-year-old woman, originally from Rennes, also underlined the "lack of attractiveness of the profession, because most of the home helpers are part-time, partial time suffered ”.

Several demonstrators were gathered behind a large banner on which could be read: "Nursing assistant, Home, Wage poverty, Revaluation, Emergency".

Among them, the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, estimated that "workers, and especially women workers, social, medico-social, home help feel discredited while they have been there throughout the health crisis and continue to be so ”.

Measures similar to the Ségur de la santé

Laurent Berger, who called on Sunday in the JDD for an immediate 15% increase in salaries for these staff, called for the same type of “measures taken during the Ségur de la santé” in favor of public hospitals for these sectors. and private.

“We will come back,” he warned, “the government must know that we will not give up.

It is not all to applaud, we now need real salary recognition for these workers ”.

At the end of October, the government gave the green light to a first increase of 2.5% in the wages of home helpers, a measure eagerly awaited because it had been negotiated for a long time.

Professionals are now waiting for the state to endorse another salary increase, of 12%, negotiated in May between the social partners, and which would cost nearly 500 million euros - to be distributed among the departments, in charge of home help, and the state.

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