The strike was announced.
But we did not expect it to take such a proportion.
This Tuesday morning, agents of the City of Paris, garbage collectors and sewer workers, invaded the town hall to protest against a reform affecting their working time.
Early in the morning, while a peaceful procession patiently in front of the doors of the rue de Lobau, another invests the interior courtyard of the building, and even climbs on the roof.
"It's very easy to access it, there is a staircase in the library that leads directly to it," says a protester, a member of the CGT.
By dint of despising the #worker class, she rebels and fights for Her ideals!
#class struggle.
The agents of the #villedeparis occupy the #mairie without limit!
#forceetcourage to our comrades 2 first line!
#onestla #miserableegoutier #servicepublic #saccageservicepublic pic.twitter.com/QiL1I6rHPr
- Cdb sewer de Paris (@Cdboeuf) May 25, 2021
If the slogan "Not a minute more" is brandished, that smoke is lit there, it is especially in the courtyard that the movement is gaining momentum, where a hundred people throw flyers on the ground, introduce trash cans. … Without noticeable overflow, however.
The City also regrets this new organization of work
Since May 20, their demands have not changed: they do not want this reform leading to the transformation of the public service, and resulting in January 2022 in the increase in the working time of municipal officials. Its application would cause them to lose the equivalent of eight days of leave per year. "We would like to preserve as much as possible our achievements and our advantages, we exercise hard jobs and our life expectancy is reduced, there must be compensation", argues a garbage collector. Although some are open to discussion and ready to "make concessions", most are exasperated and sorry for the lack of reaction from the town hall.
“A trade union delegation was received this morning by the general secretariat and a second in the afternoon by Antoine Guillou, deputy mayor in charge of human resources, the City responds. We are not at the initiative of this law, and the municipal executive disapproves of its objectives, unfortunately having no other choice but to implement it. Over the past year, around ten meetings have taken place on this subject with trade unions. Ways are being studied to adapt the impact of the law to the particular situation of employees of the Parisian public service. "
