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Lyon: the town hall singled out for having ordered down jackets made in Bangladesh from its agents

2023-01-16T19:51:55.858Z


While it had voted for a deliberation for ecologically and socially responsible purchases, the Lyon environmentalist municipality was singled out for the purchase of 450 sleeveless down jackets made on the other side of the world.


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“We would have liked an action in line with the moralizing discourse of the executive”

.

The order placed at the very end of 2022 by the City of Lyon to equip certain agents with down jackets makes the South union cringe.

And for good reason they were made on the other side of the world, the small label sewn inside mentioning as origin:

"Made in Bangladesh"

.

Back to last December.

While the municipality complies with the energy sobriety instructions for public buildings and reduces the heating in its services, the agents are shivering.

The thermostat is set at 19°C, but in some poorly insulated buildings, it is much colder, especially for static administrative staff.

The municipality is therefore ordering 450 branded sleeveless down jackets to warm up its employees.

“Ecological and social transition strategy”

Upon receipt, the South union was surprised at the source in a letter sent on December 20 to Audrey Hénocque, first assistant in charge of finance and public procurement.

Mention is made in particular of the Spaser, this scheme for the promotion of socially and economically responsible public purchases adopted in 2021 by the environmental executive.

The elected representative then presented it as

“a first-rate lever of action for the implementation of our ecological and social transition strategy

”.

Statements inevitably returned as a boomerang today to an environmentalist executive who underlines having

“had to act within the framework agreement which dates from February 2019, and therefore preexists our arrival in power”

.

As for the possibility of an exceptional order,

“no supplier was able to respond within the time limits

, opposes the entourage of the mayor,

with prices also too high even for those who assemble only in France”

.

Down jacket made in France, mission impossible

Faced with the difficulty of obtaining supplies in France on this warm clothing market, the town hall assumes a

“principle of reality”

, moreover hammered by the opposition at the start of its mandate.

And promises an improvement, in the light of this controversy, in the next framework agreement.

"Today the clothes of the municipal police are made in France"

, cites an example close to the mayor.

But it will be necessary to be cunning, by establishing precise criteria to circumvent that of the geographical origin, prohibited by the law for the public markets because considered as a discrimination.

Source: lefigaro

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