Last July, the president of the OGBL, Nora Back, made the first step in putting pressure on the government. Yesterday, at a national committee meeting, she pressed even harder on the hot-button issues, while emphasising her determination not to back down on numerous dossiers such as the housing crisis, the "decoys" of the , the reduction in purchasing power and the increase in inequalities.

"It is time to act and negotiate firmly," said Nora Back, who wants to keep up the pressure on the coalition, whose work she considers unsatisfactory, especially on housing. "The coalition has not produced much in the way of results to remedy the housing crisis," she stressed, before arguing that "there is no more time to lose before taking action.”

Another important issue for the president was purchasing power. A few days before Xavier Bettel's State of the Nation address (to be held on 13 October), the OGBL asserts that the crisis has weighed on workers and households. Nora Back does not want to see the latter footing the bill for the cost of the health crisis. She also refused any attack on wage indexation and criticised the time lost on the implementation of indexation of family benefits. Removed in 2006 and then adopted in 2014 for a return by January 2022, Nora Back estimates that the loss of earnings is 7.7% and considers the return of this indexation to be far too late.

The country's trade unions are therefore on the march. A few days ago, the LCGB presented a series of demands concerning the health sector, and above all social security, before expressing concern about the gradual reduction in the attractiveness of Luxembourg for frontier workers.

This article  in Paperjam. It has been translated and edited for Delano.