Strike of October 18. Bayeux, Lisieux and Caen open this day of mobilization in Calvados
A day of national and interprofessional mobilization takes place this Tuesday, October 18, 2022. The trade unions, including the CGT, FO, Solidaires and the FSU, call on all employees in all sectors to go on strike for wages and salaries. trade union freedoms. A day of mobilization to extend the actions of oil industry employees and in response to the government’s decision to make requisitions to facilitate the distribution of fuel.
Gatherings, before the 5:30 p.m. demonstration
In Calvados, several rallies are organized this Tuesday, with the highlight, the demonstration, at 5:30 p.m., in Caen, in front of the prefecture.
Before that, many gatherings are organized throughout the department.
The carers started the day by gathering at 8 a.m. in front of the Domidom home help and service agency, 5 promenade du Fort, in Caen.
They and they were seven around 9 am, but expected to be fifteen by the end of the morning. “At Domitim, Orpéa group, employees are underpaid, deplores Séverine Marotel, carer. We use our personal vehicles to provide our services to the beneficiaries, we are compensated up to 31 cents per kilometer. We have no occupational pension, knowing that it is more dangerous to work in home help than on a building site. To be paid for our overtime, we have to wait until the end of the current year. We are still waiting for the Covid bonus. This is why we speak of a precarious sector. »
Among the demands: “The increase in wages, the revaluation of compensation for mileage, professional insurance, a packed lunch and/or a restaurant ticket, payment of overtime at the end of the month and a 13e month. »
Vocational high school teachers
Teachers from several vocational high schools in Calvados gathered this Tuesday, from 8 a.m. in front of their establishments. Most then took the direction of Caen, for a rally at the Rectorate in the morning.
They are protesting against the reform of vocational education, which notably provides for a 50% increase in the time spent in business by bac pro students.
They were in particular about forty demonstrators in front of the Paul-Cornu professional high school, in Lisieux, at the call of the CGT. The mobilization against the reform of vocational education was joined by the CGT interprofession.
At 9 a.m., the teachers took the direction of Caen, for the Rectorate rally, and a delegation will be received at 2:30 p.m. While the activists of the CGT interprofession went to Deauville, at Jacomo, to support the strike Staff.
In Bayeux, a handful of teachers from the Arcisse-de-Caumont vocational school met in front of their establishment at 8 a.m. The movement had been planned for a long time, even before the call for an interprofessional strike by several unions.
Reassembled against the reform of the vocational high school wanted by the executive, the teachers distributed leaflets “for students and parents of students”, explaining the reasons for their anger.
“Students are not just cheap labour! annoys Sébastien Alix, mathematics teacher at the Arcisse-de-Caumont professional high school and staff representative. What the vocational high school offers is a complete vision of a job, not a single mission! Hence the importance of teaching hours in high school…”
According to the staff representative, nearly 75% of the high school teachers are on strike. All rejoice in the morning in front of the rectorate, in Caen.
Even chose Laplace high school, it’s operation “dead high school”, with 90% of strikers.
At 8 a.m., about five teachers gathered in front of the Guibray vocational high school, in Falaise, they then took the direction of Caen.
Postal workers and caregivers
The postal workers will follow in their footsteps, at 10:30 a.m., still in Caen. The staff of the Saint-Martin private hospital in Caen also announced that they would join the movement.
Note that for schools, in Caen, the town hall has specified that the children’s lunch break will be “severely degraded”. In contrast, Twisto buses and trams had to be irregular ” normally “, according to Keolis. Even if, some disturbances are not to be excluded during the demonstration at the end of the day.
At the SNCF
On strike since yesterday, Monday, October 17, the railwaymen of the SNCF, in Normandy, continue their movement, this Tuesday. Yesterday, railway workers protested against the opening to competition of regional lines. The national of this day concerns the increase in the wages of the movement.
The SNCF announces disruptions to be expected on the entire Nomad Train network”, with one in two trains on average, on the Caen-Le Mans-Tours lines; Caen-Cherbourg; Caen-Lisieux-Trouville/Deauville and Caen-Coutances-Granville-Rennes. On the other lines, it takes two out of three trains.