No teleworking when you are a bus driver. In March, as France confines itself to the Covid-19 epidemic, Jérôme Accart, 46, continues to get behind the wheel of his vehicle to take his service in Saint-Quentin (Aisne).
The passengers, at the time, did not wear masks. Hardly has the driver been fitted with a plastic sheet that separates his cabin from the rest of the cabin. “We were exposed,” he says. Today, we are forgotten. "
While Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday a "Covid bonus" of 1000 euros for carers, other trades are offended by a lack of recognition vis-à-vis their own contribution during the crisis .
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“Obviously, I find that caregivers should be rewarded, concedes the driver. But we also continued to do our job, despite the risks. Why are we not staying in the same boat? "
Disparities exist even within the different sectors mobilized. "In transport, we have long asked for the establishment of a branch agreement, rewinds Patrick Blaise, secretary general of the Federal Road Union CFDT. Finally, we end up with bonuses granted according to the goodwill of each company ... "
"We endangered our colleagues"
Whether it is the transport of goods, passengers or sick people, the trade unionist nevertheless believes that the branch as a whole is indeed part of the sectors "essential" and "essential to the functioning of the country" leased in March by Bercy.
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“To keep logistics platforms running, to supply stores, we endangered our colleagues,” he breathes. Some have died. We are a long way from receiving rewards worthy of our efforts ”.
During the crisis, working conditions also deteriorated sharply. “Closing the restaurants for the truckers was a disaster,” he says. We could no longer eat, wash, go to the toilets… ”At the end of March, the profession had ended up threatening to assert its right of withdrawal.
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Teachers, postmen, police officers… The discontented can be counted in almost all exposed sectors. Latest example: the Paris firefighters. After two months on the front line in the face of the coronavirus, these 8,500 soldiers were to be granted a generous bonus. Finally, only 15% of them will receive the sum of 350 euros.
Often, it is the conditions of attribution, considered too limited, which leave out many employees. In schools, only those who have taken part in welcoming the children of caregivers will be rewarded. The teachers, however, were among the first to come out of confinement, in a context of economic emergency and despite the difficult application of barrier gestures with the youngest.
"Masquerade"
“All staff deserve recognition for the work accomplished in these exceptional conditions,” annoys the Union of Teachers-UNSA in a note published at the end of May. At the same time, the Alliance union denounced, within the police, a "masquerade" and "vague criteria left to the appreciation of department heads".
While the last premium payments were to be made at the end of August, the Finance Committee of the National Assembly granted companies additional time, until the end of December, in order to have a "consolidated vision of the recovery of their activity. ". With, if the indicators are green, the possibility of reassessing some of their award criteria.
