the movement is still hardening, the negotiations are deadlocked
The strike movement of Toulouse garbage collectors is getting tougher, this Monday, January 10, 2022. Two new depots are being blocked. Elected officials are worried about the stagnation of the conflict between the agents and the metropolis.
Until when will the trash cans continue to pile up in the streets of Toulouse?
The conflict between the city’s garbage collectors and the Toulouse metropolitan area is getting bogged down. On Thursday January 6, the household waste collection agents had already completely blocked the Raisin and Monlong depots. This Monday, it is the turn of those of Colomiers and the Union.
A response no doubt to the words of the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, who said on January 6 that there was no question of giving in to the demands of the strikers, totally unreasonable according to him. “I will never give 28 days compensation to strikers and even less 34. Everyone needs to know that“, he said on the occasion of his vows.
The inter-union, for its part, deplores the lack of negotiations. And the threat of a privatization of the service.
This is also feared by the mayor of L’Union, Marc Péré, who spoke at length this weekend on Facebook on the conflict.
Marc Péré recalls that at the origin of this movement of anger on the part of the agents, there was the end of the “finished party”: “Lhe Fini / Parti was an advantage granted to garbage collectors, during the Baudis years, so that the streets of Toulouse were clean before 9 a.m. and that the garbage trucks did not manage the traffic in the streets at the time of deliveries.“, writes Marc Péré.
The agents accepted this disappearance but not the number of days of recovery granted in compensation. The mayor of L’Union, who expresses his support for them, is surprised that no prior negotiations were engaged, before the announcement of the end of the “finished party”, as was the case with the municipal police officers. .
While the garbage collectors’ unions have accepted the end of Fini / Parti, how is it possible that no compromise can be found, and that the executive of the metropolis continues the chin-blows and the ranting by threatening to privatize and proposing, after a month of strike, only 9 days of recovery now?
Invited by our colleagues from France Bleu Occitanie, this Monday morning, Antoine Maurice, elected from the opposition, wondered in the same way: “isn’t this the chronicle of an announced privatization?“
The agents on strike, they ask the elected officials who have received to come and meet them.