Several hundred seasonal workers blocked the A43 motorway before the Fréjus tunnel to request the opening of ski lifts in ski resorts.
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PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP
They were this Monday morning more than a hundred to demonstrate.
Seasonal workers blocked the A43 Maurienne motorway for several tens of minutes, just before the Fréjus tunnel, which links to France and Italy.
They then set up a filter dam to warn of the situation of ski resorts and request the opening of ski lifts as well as economic aid.
To avoid a "social disaster", Pierre Didio, the departmental secretary of FO, who organized the blockage, asked the government to ensure that "people can go skiing" and increase aid for seasonal workers.
A meeting with Jean Castex this Monday
"We will ask to be received" by Emmanuel Macron, added Eric Becker, federal secretary of transport / ski lifts at Force Ouvrière, who calls for "all those who fall outside the award criteria" to be taken care of. partial unemployment, which only benefits those who have been hired.
A hundred thousand seasonal workers in the hotel and catering industry and mountain businesses are affected, according to the union, and, without aid, "some have nothing left to live on, and that is unacceptable", added Eric Becker.
Prime Minister Jean Castex must receive on Monday at 5 p.m. the players in the mountain world, who are waiting for new announcements to support a sector which is undergoing an almost total shutdown of its activity.
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