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Strike of garbage collectors in Nantes: while the movement continues, the City sticks to its positions

2023-03-17T18:37:33.253Z


The agents will continue their mobilization against the pension reform for at least another week. The town hall, which received a letter from the prefecture on the subject, says that it will continue to call on service providers on a case-by-case basis.


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Stop or again.

This is the second option chosen by the agents in charge of waste management in Nantes.

This Friday, they decided to extend their strike action against the pension reform.

The blockades of the city's three main collection centers - Janvraie (west), Great Britain (north) and Etier (east) - started last Saturday will therefore continue.

It remains to be seen until when.

This will be at least for an additional week until the next day of national mobilization scheduled for Thursday March 23.

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“The movement continues more than ever”

, confirms to

Figaro

, Raynald Guibert of the CGT and member of the executive committee Ville de Nantes.

“The more Macron goes his way, the more anger there is

,” he adds, referring to his

“buddies who have been on the

picket line”

for several days.

As for the exchanges desired by the agents with the community, they did not really take place according to him.

A doctrine that does not change

For its part, the municipality is under pressure.

Its solution of intervening on a

“case by case” basis when

“questions of hygiene, health and safety”

arise,

according to Mayor Johanna Rolland, was weakened by the images, Thursday evening, of garbage cans on fire having served as fuel. for some opponents of the government's plan.

This Friday morning, part of the city center was also covered with the ashes of the containers and their burnt contents.

In response to this situation, clean-up operations took place.

Le Figaro

noted that waste collection operations also took place in the Graslin sector, which was not affected by the repeated fires of the previous day.

“Unacceptable degradation”

This Friday noon, Johanna Rolland spoke to our colleagues from France Bleu Loire Océan about the incidents that occurred in the city center on Thursday evening.

"

There was at the end of the evening and very at the margin - I insist - degradations which were committed and which are unacceptable

", she declared.

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Contacted, the town hall explains that the

current

"doctrine" on the subject

"has not changed

".

"In respect of the right to strike [...] the community has appealed in recent days to both its agents or service providers to ensure collections and cleaning"

, she explains, taking as an example the interventions on the public road this Friday

"between the rue de Strasbourg and the course of the 50 hostages presenting potential dangers"

.

A waste collection also took place in the Ehpad, Thursday evening, to respond to

“health emergencies”

.

Exchange with the prefect

The whole of this device was communicated to the prefect of Loire-Atlantique, as indicated in

Figaro

, the City of Nantes.

The latter, requested by the elected representatives of the opposition group of the right and the center, had

"seized by mail the Mayor of Nantes in order to know the measures put in place by his services"

as revealed by Laurence Garnier, president of the group Better living in Nantes, in a tweet.

This Friday morning, the Loire-Atlantique prefecture had explained to Le

Figaro

that it was not considering requisitioning agents "

at the moment

" and that it had "

for the moment

" not received a seizure in this direction on the part of Nantes Métropole.

A kind of status quo which irritates the elected representatives of the opposition Better living in Nantes.

“We invite the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, to come out of her office to see that our city is disfigured by her political allies and that the damage is nothing marginal,” they wrote in a post on Twitter

.

Source: lefigaro

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