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Since the end of November, the Occitan capital and neighboring towns have been stuck in a dispute over the working conditions of municipal employees. While the rubbish is piling up, the mayor hardens his tone and the unions hold on.
After a month and a half of strike, will the garbage collectors take out the dump trucks blocked in the depots to go and demonstrate in procession under the windows of the mayor of Toulouse, Place du Capitole? “It is not excluded”, says Friday evening Nicolas Refutin to Release. The general secretary of the Force Ouvrière union of Toulouse Métropole employees announces new actions and demonstrations in the standoff between him and mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc.
The city councilor LR warned for his part the 600 garbage collectors of the metropolis that their pay slips will be amputated from days of strike at the end of the month. Moudenc even pretended to brandish the nuclear threat: privatize the collection of household waste if negotiations with the unions continue to get bogged down around the application of the 35 hours. “The people I meet in the neighborhoods ask me to call on private companies”, slyly slipped the mayor on the right during his greetings to the press on Thursday.
“Finished party”
As everywhere in France, Toulouse and the 36 municipalities of its metropolis had to overhaul the working conditions of municipal employees before January 1. A law passed in 2019 put an end to the special regimes granted to local civil servants, who must…