Demonstration, picket line: Toulouse garbage collectors boost negotiations
This Tuesday morning, more than fifty garbage collectors gathered under the windows of the town hall of Balma. Monday, the agents of the metropolis threatening to block the deposits.
Anger roared under the windows of the town hall of Balma. This Tuesday morning, about fifty garbage collectors made an appointment. They acquired in order to keep their assets. The agents in charge of waste collection hoped to meet the mayor of the town, who is also vice-president of Toulouse Métropole in charge of waste, Vincent Terrail-Novès. The chosen one was absent subscribers.
This action is part of the standoff between the Metropolis and the unions. The negotiations are at a standstill. If the precondition for their start, the end of the “finished party” has been noted, only additional points have seen tiny progress. The inter-union offers, in recognition of the arduous nature of the profession, a reduction in daily working time of 1 hour 30 minutes. Toulouse Métropole garbage.
Monday pickets
The law on the transformation of the civil service, which forces communities to make their agents work 1,607 hours per year (or 35 hours per week), will come into force on January 1, 2022, a public holiday. On Sundays, the garbage collectors are off duty. It is therefore Monday that they will have to comply with this new regulation. For the first, agents of the metropolis announced that “pickets” are blocking deposits. The inter-union assures that it has asked Toulouse Métropole for a meeting in order to “find an agreement before the end of the year” and that the “conflict does not escalate further”. “Unfortunately, we did not get any response. The garbage collectors are at their end ”. The Metropolis did not respond to our requests.