At the Public Finance Center in Douai, Thomas Remmery skims the three floors on this Tuesday at the end of November.

“The CEO of Leclerc announces a tsunami of inflation in 2023, with double-digit inflation,” explains the slender CGT candidate to the agents of the personal tax service.

"The CGT vote is an effective way to make it heard that we do not agree with what is happening," he insists in front of a handful of silent agents.

Like him, public service unionists are sparing no effort to try to mobilize agents and fight against abstention a few days before professional elections, scheduled for December 1 to 8.

Information meetings, rounds in the departments, training of candidates, everything is good to bring some colleagues to pass in the voting booth... behind his screen.

“The future is not rosy”

“If not, did you create your account to vote?

“Launches Pascal Brodowski.

Blues jersey on the chest, with the CGT sticker for the occasion, he is worried that only "25% of the agents" of Public Finance have created their personal space for electronic voting, generalized this year to the whole function public sector (2.5 million agents).

During the last professional elections in 2018, the turnout fell for the first time below the symbolic threshold of 50%.

In the accounting management department, Marjorie Lannoy is one of the good students.

In Public Finance since 2004, she has already created her account and will vote, in the hope of improving her working conditions.

“We only work on an emergency basis.

Having enough arms to do the job on time would be really good, ”she sighs on a half-empty board.

"There are a lot of changes at the moment, the future is not rosy", confirms a lower floor Corinne Azzoug, employed in the land registration service.

“But hey, I'm approaching retirement so I hope it will go that far!

she hopes.

Difficult parity… lack of men

“I am one of the abstentionists”, affirms for his part Alexandre who did not wish to give his last name.

“We have the impression that decisions are taken upstream (…) whatever the unions say,” regrets this agent recruited eight years ago.

In addition to mobilizing civil servants, we must also find and train candidates to represent the unions for the next four years.



CFDT candidate in the town of Dompierre-sur-Yon, Patricia Milcent notes that "parity was difficult to find" to build her list.

"The territorial public service is becoming more feminized and we had trouble finding men," she analyzes on the sidelines of a gathering of CFDT candidates from Pays de la Loire.

“Many members give up exposing themselves on a union list”, also underlines the general secretary of the CFDT Public functions Mylène Jacquot.

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