The Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis and the FO union announced on Wednesday the end of the garbage collectors’ strike movement started on January 18.
The Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis and the FO union announced on Wednesday the end of the garbage collectors’ strike movement started on January 18, the third in four months in Marseille, where thousands of tons of garbage again invaded the city. . The strike notice is officially lifted from Thursday evening, announced to AFP the deputy secretary general of FO in the metropolis, Patrice Ayache. The metropolis hopes for a return to normal within eight days, with some 2,000 tonnes of garbage still to be collected across the city, told AFP Yves Moraine, the elected LR in charge of negotiations on this file for The city.
Force Ouvrière, a powerful majority union among territorial agents, whether in the city of Marseille or the metropolis, announced that it had obtained a gross increase of 40 euros for Marseille garbage collectors, as well as the opening of a “revaluation project of the entire compensation scheme” for agents responsible for collecting rubbish bins.
“Exceptional situation, exceptional response”
At the origin of the movement, FO demanded an increase of 80 euros for Marseille garbage collectors, who would be paid less than their counterparts in other municipalities of the metropolis. “I take note of the announced resumption of waste collection by the metropolis and I welcome it for the people of Marseilles”, reacted the socialist mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, in a statement sent to AFP, after having decided to engage in this conflict on Monday evening by having private dump trucks “urgently intervene” to try to pick up the piles of rubbish threatening in particular to end at the sea with the strong mistral.
“In an exceptional situation, an exceptional response”, had justified the mayor of Marseille, by interfering in an area nevertheless reserved for the metropolis, led by Martine Vassal (LR): “All the elements are there to rush us towards a security drama and ecological”, according to the city councilor representing a left-wing coalition, who says he is forced to “get out of the legal framework to protect the Marseillaises and the Marseillais”, by mobilizing “extraordinary derogatory means in order to preserve public health”.
This new garbage crisis was all the more threatening as the city is currently subjected to a very violent mistral which risks both carrying a large part of the waste towards the sea, but also fanning the garbage fires started here and there by exasperated Marseillais. At the end of the first garbage strike, at the beginning of October, hundreds of tons of garbage still in the streets had been pushed towards the sea during a weekend of violent winds in the city.
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