Toulouse: End of the garbage collectors’ strike
We were already heading this Wednesday evening towards the end of an unprecedented movement in Toulouse? After 4 weeks of strike by garbage collectors, the discussions seem to be bearing fruit in the opinion of the Intersyndicale meeting with Toulouse Métropole officials on Wednesday.
Union officials came out of the negotiations confident “undeniably there have been advances“said Benoit Fontanilles, a spokesperson for the Intersyndicale “on the form already because the administration had only discussed until then with the press, and this time they came to make us real proposals”. To compensate for the passage of garbage collectors to 1607 hours and the abolition of the tradition of the “finished job” (which allows agents to leave once their tour) Toulouse Métropole would offer 11 days of subjection to compensate for the arduousness “like our colleagues in the municipal police”, 3 days of recovery to compensate for public holidays worked and finally a device allowing a daily decrease in activity of an hour and a half during the summer months (equivalent to 11 additional days recovered). According to Benoit Fontanilles “we will know this Thursday morning if the proposals are validated by the agents, knowing that they would also obtain an extension of a premium to all the deposits”. “I hope for the resumption of work for the agents and all Toulouse residents, we are at 4 weeks of strike action we can still hold on, but there is real progress even if we could hope for a lot more, the finished game is incomparable … ”
According to collection agents, it will take at least 15 days to empty the containers and completely clean the Pink City. “with a lot of overtime and Sundays worked” smiled Benoit Fontanilles.
End of the strike
This Thursday around 7:30 am all of the Toulouse Métropole depots voted to end the strike.