What we know about the negotiations around the garbage collectors' strike

• After a first strike in September, a new strike by waste collection officers broke out last week.

• This Tuesday, the metropolis reached an agreement with all the unions, FO decided to continue the movement for a salary increase.

• Reason for the conflict, working time, professional retraining, legality ...

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"A law whose application is painful," denounced Patrick Rué, secretary general of the territorial FO.

And that is to say the least.

After a week of a total strike during which waste piled up in the streets of Marseille, the unions reached an agreement with the metropolis.

The CGT, FSU, UNSA and CFTC quickly accepted the content, while FO, the majority union in the cleaning sector, during a general assembly held this Tuesday evening decided to continue the movement.

Reasons for the conflict, content of the agreement, control of legality and implementation, possibility of a return to strike action at the start of next year ...

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Why this (new) strike?

At the origin of this conflict, the law on the transformation of the civil service, adopted on August 6, 2019, which provides, among other things, for the implementation of 35 hours in all public jobs, i.e. 1,607 hours per year, and therefore the end of derogatory regimes. This law, the application of which must be effective on January 1, 2022, also provides that a certain number of adjustments, in particular with regard to arduousness, be possible, without however stating its limits. Of course, workers and unions hope to get the best of it.

In Marseille, the regional chamber of accounts recently estimated the daily working time of garbage collectors at 3:30, despite a previous agreement dating from 2014, bringing it to 5:30. In September, a first negotiation, accompanied by a waste collection strike lasting around ten days, took place. The metropolis had reached an agreement with FO, around a reduction in working time of 9.5%, bringing it to around 1,550 hours per year. Terms never accepted by the CGT and FSU, which had not been invited to negotiations. The latter therefore maintained the pressure with a pearl strike and continuing negotiations. It was during this that FO joined the strike last Tuesday, causing collection to be completely blocked. "We had negotiated for the best, it turns out that there could be even better",then justified Patrick Rué.

What does the agreement provide as is?

Indeed, there was the “best” possible.

In the agreement reached on Monday, the metropolis proposed a 15% discount, which brings working time to 1,366 hours per year.

Either 6 hours a day on a basis of 228 days per year or else 6:55 a.m. on a basis of 200 days worked per year, as is currently the case.

So much for the big chunk.

But for all that, the agreement includes many other provisions.

"We had a dialogue which went to the bottom of many subjects", greeted Yves Moraine, in charge of negotiations by Martine Vassal, the president of the metropolis.

In detail, it was agreed that garbage collectors could benefit from a training plan as soon as they are hired in order to best prepare their retraining, it being understood that it is difficult to be a ripper (those in charge of the collection who are behind dump trucks) for more than 10 or 15 years.

The metropolis is also committed to renovating business premises from 2022, and replacing obsolete equipment in order to improve working conditions.

A revaluation of 90 to 170 euros was also negotiated (against 80 euros in the previous agreement).

Why is it blocking at FO?

Gathered with a hundred in general assembly this Tuesday evening, FO decided to continue the movement.

The strikers believe that in the state, the significant increase in their working time is not sufficiently financially compensated.

They are demanding an increase of 300 euros net, minimum, if the 15% discount applies and 600 euros otherwise.

During this general assembly, the strikers asked the management to amplify the movement.

What would be the timetable for implementing an agreement?

This Wednesday, a technical committee must meet to tie up a possible agreement, before it is put to a vote in the metropolitan council the next day.

Once adopted by the territorial body, this text must then pass the legality check.

And this is where things get stuck.

Either the State services consider that this 15% discount is in the spirit of the law on the transformation of the civil service, and it is validated, or the State services contest its legality and dismiss the metropolis and this provision to the administrative court.

The situation was anticipated, since the agreement provides for the appointment of "an expertise firm that will support the real arduousness of this profession to ensure its legal viability", explains Yves Moraine.

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