Garbage collectors strike in Toulouse: garbage cans will no longer be collected
On December 16, the date of the community council, the city’s garbage collectors began a hard strike. If for the moment, it should only last one day, the notice is renewable …
The trash cans had not all been collected for a few weeks, due to the movement of garbage collectors in the metropolis. Thursday December 16, date of the community council, none will be. The agents in charge of the waste collection go on strike. The notice was tabled on Thursday. It is renewable. “For the moment, no decision has yet been taken on the renewal of the strike,” warns Nicolas Refutin, general secretary of the majority FO union in Toulouse Métropole.
The unions, who are meeting this Friday morning to decide on the continuation of the protest movement launched on November 22, invite the 600 agents of the metropolis to demonstrate under the windows of the community council, which will ratify the new regulations. not the population held hostage. It is the president of the metropolis, Jean-Luc Moudenc, who does it. Since elected officials pride themselves on having “garbage collection friends”, it will be an opportunity to say hello to them, “brocades Benoît Fontanilles (Autonomous union).
The inter-union had not “planned” for the movement to switch to a strike for waste collection. It is a collective decision that was taken at the end of the technical committee, which was held this Wednesday, December 8.
Achopé negotiations
To comply with the labor law, the metropolis announced the end of the “finished party”. Which caused an earthquake among the mud fliers. The unions had therefore shunned the first technical committee, scheduled for November 18. Then, it was the turn of Toulouse metropolis to postpone the proceedings, wishes to hear the claims of these agents, ensuring “not to know them”. table to lend itself to the delicate game of negotiations.
The metropolis was ready to recognize the arduous work of its agents and to grant more days of subjugation, going from 2 to 7. But this is not where the shoe pinches. Toulouse Métropole has imposed a precondition for the negotiations: end of the “finished party” Main claim of the muddlers. The technical committee did not allow us to advance an inch. It’s blackmail, criticizes Nicolas Refutin. We do not negotiate with a precondition. Everyone will therefore have to take their responsibilities from now on ”.
For his part, Vincent-Terrail Novès, vice-president of Toulouse metropolis in charge of waste, regrets the choice of the unions. “It’s a mess,” he says. We were ready to negotiate. We have hit a wall. The practice (of “gone finished”) is illegal. We need to comply with the labor law. The garbage collectors have taken enough advantage of this. Whatever happens, it will no longer exist. Deductions from the wages of strikers will be made ”.
For the moment, it is only one day of hard strike that is announced. Many agents of the metropolis already wish to renew it. However, other possibilities are mentioned by the unions. As the agents of the metropolis adopt a hybrid system, between the hard strike and the movement started at the end of November, the application to the letter of the future regulations. A new consultation will determine the continuation of the movement.