Trade unionists opposed to the vaccine bond for caregivers have introduced to the region of the region between Thursday and Friday. They now prepare new mobilizations.
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The Christmas truce has been welcome for the Guadeloupéens. The time of a weekend, they allowed themselves to forget their hassle. How long does this parenthesis last? No one knows, but some fear that the interlude is brief. Two days barely before Christmas, this Caribbean department lived a new rebound in the serious social and health crisis since it ever crossed six weeks.
Thursday, December 23, about 400 trade unionists opposed to the vaccine bond for caregivers burst into the regional council building in Basse-Terre. After forcing access, they introduced themselves into the hemicycle, where the elected officials had come together for a plenary session. These, warned of the Intrusion of the Collective of Trade Union Organizations in the Building, had sent the deliberations and started to evacuate the room before the arrival of the protesters.
“There was a plenary, and not one of the agenda items concerned the situation of social and health crisis in Guadeloupe. For us, it is inadmissible, while workers are suspended and n. have no salary for two months “, denounces Maïté Hubert M’Toumo, Secretary General of the powerful general union of Guadeloupean workers (UGTG). “We have strength, so as to impose our presence and the opening of a discussion,” she continues.
A “popular plenary” improvised
In the late afternoon, a dozen representatives of the various trade union organizations were received by the President (the Republic in March, LRM) of the region, Ary Chalus. “It has been demanded that there is very quickly a clear and public position on its part”, hammering the unionist, who criticizes the elected “not to act and to contradict” on the question of the obligation vaccine and suspensions of non-vaccinated caregivers.
Despite this spectacular intrusion and degradations they caused to make a path, Ary Chalus adopts, during a telephone interview, an impassive tone and ensures that his exchanges with trade unionists took place in the calmed down. “We met for two hours and they told me about the difficulties of health in Guadeloupe and the problems of caregivers in all sectors,” he says. “I told them that I would raise their expectations at the state level,” says the president, comfortably re-elected six months ago in the last regional ballot.
Determined, some of the trade unionists spent the night in the building. On Friday, the members of the collective improvised in the hemicycle a “popular plenary”, during which suspended workers testified to their difficulties. Then at the beginning of the afternoon, after twenty-four hours of the seat of the region of the region, the protesters left the premises. The Christmas truce could start.
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