This strike in the delivery, restoration, building or garbage collection sectors highlights particularly precarious working conditions.
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They plunge it into the cuisines of Café Marly, a chic restaurant located under the arcades of the Louvre in Paris; They pick up household waste throughout the Ile-de-France, under the banner of the company Sepur; They deliver the races at the home of Parisian customers of Monoprix; They condition and ship the newspapers to France Routing; are temporary at Manpower and gardeners, building workers or handlers in logistics on behalf of large groups such as Bouygues, Eiffage, Chronopost … Monday, October 25, some 200 undocumented workers had to start a vast strike movement in Ile-de- France, to the call of the CGT, to denounce their working conditions and claim their regularization.
Sunday at the headquarters of the Trade Union Confederation, in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), they had come together to organize their disengagement. “It’s very important that you come out in the open, especially with the rise of far-right ideas,” defends Marilyne Poulain, responsible for undocumented workers for the CGT, in front of an assembly of men originating in the majority of Mali , from Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. “If you were not there, which would pick up the garbage can at 5 o’clock in the morning?, Request Jean-Albert Guidou, from the CGT of Seine-Saint-Denis, under the applause of the strikers. Who would be in cooking? Who would The safety of shops and hospitals or household in the offices? That’s it, the reality, not the one presented on CNEWS. “
It is per definition impossible to quantify the number of undocumented workers, but the strike movement launched this Monday shows the extent of the sectors using them, often to occupy the painful trades, atypical and poorly paid schedules. The fact that these workers are devoid of residence permits, in addition, in a particular vulnerability with regard to their employer. If they want to apply for prefecture, in exceptional circumstances, they have to justify their presence in France for several years, present a number of pay sheets and, imperatively, a promise of hiring. “It’s deeply problematic, because some employers have no interest in this,” says M me foal, which denounces “precarious working conditions”.
No Partial unemployment
Cheick, 34, has been present in France for more than six years. Its basketball carrier – he played in national cadet and Junior selection of Mali – has earned him work as a security agent. For almost three years, he is also a clubber in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), in a difficult neighborhood. “We are on this site because there are a lot of aggression,” he says. He works in the evening and the weekend, sweeps the streets with a blower and wash the sidewalks.
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