- A strike by CGT garbage collectors has disrupted garbage collection in Marseille since January 23.
- These garbage collectors protest against the pension reform, but also have local demands.
- Without opening negotiations with the union, the city decided to request the requisition of the striking workers.
Now make way for the strong method. Faced with the trash strike that Marseille has experienced for ten days, the metropolis of Aix-Marseille Provence, whose president Martine Vassal is LR candidate for mayor of Marseille, announces in a press release starting this Thursday the requisition procedure strikers, who protest, among other things, against the pension reform.
"Despite the means put in place to ensure the continuity of public service, 3,000 tonnes of household waste are still present in public space," said the city in a press release. Faced with the impossibility of absorbing this surplus and in order to allow a rapid return to normal, the city asked the regional prefect to proceed with the requisition of the striking staff tomorrow. "
"We can't cope"
And to affirm: "considering that the origin of the strike movement is national, because linked to the pension reform project, the Aix-Marseille Provence metropolis is obliged to have recourse to the requisition procedure, because the examination of the law is not scheduled until March. It would not have been responsible for allowing a situation to continue which could quickly pose serious problems of public hygiene and sanitation. "
Since January 23, as in Paris, waste collection has been disrupted in eight of the 16 districts of Marseille. Earlier in the day, during a press conference, the president of the territory council Jean Montagnac affirmed that the metropolis "cannot manage" to face the consequences of this movement, initiated, according to him, by "some strikers "from this minority union within the city, who represent" roughly 1% of our agents ".
"Let them do!" "
Even if, according to the metropolis, sorting centers are no longer blocked, waste collection has recorded a delay that the community is struggling to catch up with, and which justifies the recourse, according to them, to private providers, at a cost for the hour of 110,000 euros. "The direction of the cabinet of the regional prefecture indicates that it has not received any mail from the metropolitan area to this effect for the moment", indicates the regional prefecture.
"They want the requisition?" Let them do! “, Plague Véronique Dolot, member of the management of the CGT union in Bouches-du-Rhône. And to affirm: “We expected it, as the metropolis does not respect the right to strike. We have still not been received by the metropolis. The strikers were not gathered around a table to find solutions. They only act by force. "
In two strike notices dated last November and January 19, which the union distributed to the press, the CGT establishes, in addition to its request for rejection, a list of local demands, as a harmonization of the remuneration of the agents, according to them different from one city to another within the metropolis. Each day, according to the metropolis, 1,200 tonnes of waste must be picked up in Marseille.
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- Cleanliness
- Marseilles
- Pension reform
- CGT
- Strike
- Trash can