{"id":116610,"date":"2026-08-17T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/116610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:59:10","slug":"new-public-sector-strike-meets-with-little-response-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/116610\/","title":{"rendered":"New Public Sector Strike Meets with Little Response in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Dispute<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Protesters at the public sector strike in Geneva called for the resignation of State Councilors Carole-Anne Kast and Nathalie Fontanet.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/08b00e7b-0d56-40f0-a84b-68cc511d1e3c.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-dark-gray text-small mt-2\">Protesters at the public sector strike in Geneva called for the resignation of State Councilors Carole-Anne Kast and Nathalie Fontanet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-gray text-smaller mt-1 [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-b [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-aluminum [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:pb-1\">Keystone<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-stacked-spacing a-paragraph a-paragraph--lead text-h4 leading-26 md:leading-28 text-navy p-4 pb-8 md:px-0 md:pt-8\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">About 500 people joined a demonstration against budget cuts in Geneva on Monday evening. The latest public sector strike took place right at the start of the school year. Participation among teachers was just over one percent.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Keystone-SDA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-full w-full rounded-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/bluewin-prod-sc-images.imgix.net\/2026\/04\/07\/8f8bf2bc-2db8-4d30-a567-72697f869653.heif?w=96&amp;auto=format&amp;s=07db0ac73ee5d1f68cd7a05910f2bdf5\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-names text-navy text-small\">Keystone-SDA<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mr-1 h-3 w-3\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.bluewin.ch\/_next\/static\/media\/021-clock.24ldz2iukf4_m.svg?w=32\"\/>Today at 21:04<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">The impact on school operations was minimal. According to estimates from the Department of Education (DIP) shared with Keystone-SDA, only 1.2 percent of staff participated in the strike. That number\u2014138\u2014was roughly equal to the number of absent students, 153. Approximately 60 class periods were canceled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">The public sector and the subsidized sector in Geneva have been mobilizing since last November in response to the planned austerity measures. The unions and government employees are particularly critical of the suspension of seniority bonuses for 2026, as well as the freeze on cost-of-living adjustments and health insurance subsidies. Added to this are cuts of 50 francs to the integration allowance under social assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">The tensions with security forces during the G7 summit in neighboring France have also left their mark. \u201cAntisocial government\u201d and \u201cpolice state\u201d read the banners calling for the resignation of State Councilors Carole-Anne Kast and Nathalie Fontanet. In front of City Hall, State Councilor for Finance Fontanet subsequently became the main target of the chants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">The Grand Council had rejected two draft budgets for 2026. Now, September in Geneva promises to be an exciting month on this issue. In addition to the draft budget for 2027, the State Council must announce the four-year financial plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">Similarly, the cantonal government must announce which measures it will adopt from the expert group\u2019s proposals in order to achieve annual savings of 500 million francs by 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labor Dispute Protesters at the public sector strike in Geneva called for the resignation of State Councilors Carole-Anne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[56751,65],"class_list":["post-116610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-arbeitskampf","tag-geneva"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117112862486167396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}