The bins began to overflow Monday in certain sectors of Marseille where the unions began a new strike as part of a standoff around their working time and the 35 hours with the metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence.
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Some have been on strike since Thursday evening, at the call of the CGT, and Force Ouvrière, the majority union, announced Force Ouvrière in a statement to join the movement on Monday evening.
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There were some disruptions in the service this weekend
," a spokesperson for the metropolis confirmed to AFP.
The Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, resulting from the merger of six inter-municipal authorities in 2014, wishes to harmonize the working time of all its public collection and cleaning agents.
The community, led by Martine Vassal (LR), began to receive unions on Monday.
The 2019 civil service transformation law imposes a return to 35 hours on January 1, 2022 for all civil servants and to negotiate accommodations to take into account the arduousness.
The CGT demands a reduction in working hours
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For us, a 20% reduction in working time is a non-negotiable minimum
", explains to AFP Eric Robito, one of the CGT managers in the metropolis.
Which makes 1,286 hours / year, compared to 1,607 hours for a 35-hour drive.
At the end of a first meeting with the metropolis, FO, for his part, assures that none of their demands have been heard.
They relate "
to an additional reduction in working time in order to reduce the loss of days, an overall revaluation of the compensation scheme and recruitments (in particular of drivers)
", details the union.
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Faced with the obstinate refusal of the administration, from this evening, it is therefore all the districts of Marseille and all the territories of the metropolis which will be on strike at the call of the majority union!
“, He warns in a press release.
In a city where the garbage images overflowing often tarnished have its reputation, the issue of garbage of working time is a sea serpent. And if some guarantee that the rule of "
left-over
" of the past, it remains difficult to know exactly how many hours the agents in charge of waste collection work, managed in 2/3 of Marseille by public agents, the rest being delegated to private companies.