VIDEO. Toulouse: 130 vehicles from angry medico-social employers slowed traffic in the city center
Difficult to circular in the city center of Toulouse, this Wednesday morning. Employers in the medico-social sector are mobilizing. They are asking for salary increases. One hundred and thirty vehicles slowed traffic this Wednesday morning at the level of Minimes and the Departmental Council.
It was necessary to avoid the city center of Toulouse by car, this Wednesday, September 28 in the morning. Employers in the medico-social sector carried out a snail operation. They headed for the city center and the prefecture via the Minimes district and the Departmental Council, surrounded by national police vehicles and motorcyclists. They demand the revaluation of the salaries of 30% of their employees, forgotten by the government.
Start of the snail operation of the bosses of the Occitanie Medico-social sector in #Toulouse avenue of the United States blocked. Direction downtown. They demand the revaluation of the salaries of their employees. #forgotten @ASEI_asso @arseaa31 @ANRAS_official pic.twitter.com/BfBhcrY2a8
— Dispatch 31 (@ladepeche31) September 28, 2022
At the Departmental Council of Haute-Garonne, a motion was tabled. Then a delegation of representatives of employers’ federations was received at the Haute-Garonne prefecture at the end of the morning.
“A major problem of attractiveness of the sector”
For Andres Atenza, director general of Anras (National Association for Research and Solidarity Action), which notably manages four social children’s homes (MECS) in Haute-Garonne: “Take to the streets and block people , it’s not our habit. We prefer to be in our establishments alongside our employees and our patients and users. But the cup is full. About 30% of our staff have not been upgraded. We are experiencing difficulties extremes to recruit. President Macron said that we were at the heart of our Republic’s social pact. He now has to prove it. We expect a lot from the new Social Security finance law”.
Christelle Cammas, Managing Director of Reso, Résilience Occitanie, which employs 1,100 people and manages 36 establishments including nursing homes, establishments for the reception of disabled people and protection of adults in Haute-Garonne, Tarn et Garonne and Ariège: “We have a major problem of attractiveness of the sector. There is a salary problem, but also of valuation and recognition of care professions. There is a real crisis of vocations, we can no longer recruit. About 30% of our employees have not been upgraded, in logistics, in administration. In town as in the countryside, we are a crucial point in the health sector, which is never talked about, but without us, the health system will not holds more. Some of our employees are below the Smic, we must compensate, we employers. We expect a lot from the government. After two years of Covid the sector is in tatters, it is urgent to give us back our real place and recognition that we deserve.”
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More than 100,000 jobs in Occitania
The eight employers’ federations demonstrating this Wednesday represent more than 100,000 jobs in Occitania, in the sectors of home help, retirement homes, child protection, assistance for the disabled, helping people in difficulty in particular. A demonstration takes place simultaneously in Montpellier.
The representatives of the federations were received by the prefect of Occitanie
The prefect of Occitanie Etienne Guyot, the director of Dreets (Regional directorate for the economy, employment, labor and solidarity) and the regional commissioner for the fight against poverty, received the delegation of the eight federations of employers from the medico-social and health sectors, this Wednesday, September 28 at the Haute-Garonne prefecture. At the end of an hour’s interview, Jean-Louis Losson, representative of the Cnape, (federation of child protection associations), believes that the interfederal was “listened to”, “transmitted all the complaints from the sector”, and “wait for feedback from this day of national mobilization”. “Many employees of our associations have not been upgraded, this has created inequalities that are very difficult to manage internally. The prefect has been made aware of the fact that our sector is very fragile, that our professions are very important but not valued . That has to change.”