Thousands of sector workers responded to the Tuesday trade unions in Paris for the third time in less than three months. Considering having been the forgotten of health segur, they ask for the revaluation of their trades.
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Out of stock after two years of epidemic, disappointed with the conclusions of health segur, the medico-social workers were mobilized on Tuesday 1 February to express their anger. In Paris, they were more than 5,000 according to the unions to start from the place of the five-martyrs-high school-buffon. Insufficient wages, deplorable working conditions, lack of workforce and attractiveness of their profession. The demands of the protesters were plural.
At the head of the Parisian procession, Elena (who wanted to keep anonymous), member of the Social Work Mobilization Committee Ile-de-France, gives voice, army of his megaphone. If it is here today, it is above all to “make visible” the fight of its peers. “We realized that the struggles of the social sector were numerous but invisible, especially because they are spread over full of fields such as childhood, disability, accompaniment of precarious people, without shelter, etc.” , does she explain.
This is not the first time the medico-social sector is mobilizing. “On December 7, we were 60,000 to demonstrate in France and 8,000 in Paris. It is not negligible,” Commented Elena. Today, she says he wants to “tap higher” by calling the Prime Minister in front of Matignon, place of arrival of the event.
“In December, it was obtained that a delegation be received by the Ministry of Health. Of course, we suspected that Mr. Veran was not intended directly. But my colleagues found themselves face to a person who asked them “in fact, the social work, what is it?”. Our own department does not know what we do. This is proof that we are not a priority for this government “, castigates the activist, also a member of the CGT.
Emma Quirion is a specialized educator within a fireplace in the Hauts-de-Seine. She deals with adults with mental and mental disabilities. For two years, she has seen the workforce within the home where she works slightly: “We are five educators instead of fourteen.” A lack of it puts on the back of not attractive wages. “We have offset schedules. We can start at 7 o’clock, finish at 10 pm, so our personal lives are impacted. It’s complicated for example to have a life of mom. If in addition, behind, wages do not follow No, it’s normal that no one wants to do that, “she analyzes.
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