• Teachers, police officers and gendarmes over the age of 55 now benefit from dedicated slots to be vaccinated.

  • The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, wants to extend this priority vaccination to jobs in the "second line": garbage collectors, bus drivers, childminders ...

  • An initiative that representatives of these sectors have been waiting for a long time.

"It is important to give priority access to vaccination to the professions most exposed" to the coronavirus, announced Monday Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labor, on France Inter. This Tuesday morning, she therefore spoke with representatives of the professions concerned. The goal: to expand, after police officers, gendarmes and teachers, the list of professions that can benefit from dedicated slots to be inoculated (still for those over 55).

On the side of garbage collectors, likely to join this list, we welcome this news in a mixed way.

“The arrival of vaccination is a step forward that we can still welcome and take with lucidity, judge Dominique Regnier, general secretary of Force Ouvrière for public and health services.

But we must not be confined to that ”.

Because according to him, vaccination does not hide the lack of global recognition from which the “second line” suffers: “(Vaccinate) is one of the means of dealing with Covid-19, but that does not solve everything.

The precarious working conditions remain, the low wages too.

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Is it too late?

This priority vaccination, if it is confirmed, does it come too late for these particularly exposed jobs? “It is never too late to do well, recognizes Véronique Delaitre, FO national secretary for the family employment sector. But we have been asking for vaccination slots for all childminders for a while. If it had been done earlier, it would have been better ”. Same story with Liliane Delton, secretary general of UNSA-Proassmat, according to whom the prioritization of childminders is only the result of a repeated request. “Childminders are on the front line. Their health has been trampled, ”she criticizes.

For her, as for Dominique Regnier, the message is therefore the same: time is running out.

"It is a matter of public health," resumes the representative of the garbage collectors.

We must try to catch up, or even create vaccination centers dedicated to cleaners ”.

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