This new episode, the third in four months, from the protest movement lasts ten days. The Administrative Tribunal ordered “release without delay” the transfer centers and garages where the dump trucks are stored.
Le Monde with AFP
More than 3,000 tonnes of waste already accumulate in the streets of the Phocian city. And every day, 1,000 tonnes are added there. Despite a decision of the Administrative Tribunal of Marseille, Saturday, January 29, who ordered the lifting of the pickets, the conflict of the garbagers is always enlisted in Marseille, aroused the IRE of Marseillais and the Mayor.
The metropolis assigned Friday by referring the FO, the majority union to the city and the metropolis, in order to request the lifting of the blockages of the transfer centers and garages where the trucks are stored, which prevent the non- strikers to work freely.
The Administrative Tribunal ordered “freely release” these strategic sites, under penalty of 250 euros per day of delay and per person blocking these sites, according to a judgment that the France-Presse Agency could consult .
Third in four months
“It’s a non-event, we judge something that no longer exists”, reacted Patrick Rué, the boss of FO in Marseille, considering that the strikers, who are now about forty per day, no longer block the sites.
The Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, which manages the collection of waste, considers, on the contrary that these blockages remain intermittently. Anyway, the strike continues, insisted Patrick Rué, who believes that “the solution is not in the courts but in social dialogue”.
This new strike, which has lasted for ten days, is the third in four months in Marseille. FO believes that certain provisions of a previous agreement concluded at the end of December with all trade union organizations around the implementation of the thirty-five hours, including Sunday premiums, are not respected.
Saturday, the mayor, Benoît Payan, typed fist on the table: “It’s enough (…), I wish, I want and I demand that the city is clean,” he agreed in the daily Provence . And he accuses the metropolis of “to do the ostrich”: “People will have to talk to each other, from will or of force.”
The Marseillais also express their ras-le-bowl, in the streets, where they have to span the bins of garbage bins that overflow, or on social networks. Some even come to file their waste in front of the FO headquarters. In addition, the metropolis faces the absence of more than two hundred agents for illness.
The announced arrival of the Mistral from Sunday on Marseille should not arrange anything, while everyone keeps the images of the beaches covered with waste after torrential rains in October, during the first strike of this new Protest cycle around the garbage collection.