Cash or cargo carriers, ambulance drivers, carriers … The employees of the road transport sphere are called to work on Monday, June 27. The federations of all transport unions are really calling for a national protest movement demanding higher wages in road transport.
«The health crisis underscored the importance of transportation, which has even been declared public by the government. But this recognition did not turn into negotiations over wages or working conditions.“We extend our condolences to the CFDT, the CGT, the FO, the CFTC and the CFE-CGC in a joint press release.
The blockades started at dawn. According to him, 20 industrial objects were targeted From Paris . «All regions will suffer, but we do not want to bother drivers“Patrick Blaise, Secretary General of the FGTE Route CFDT, the first trade union in the profession, told the Ile-de-France daily. Thus, Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes, Nantes, Lille or even Metz are concerned. According to the CGT, dams in Orleans (Loire), Miramas (Bouches-du-Rh Ռne) or Luneville (Mort-e-Moselle) caused delays at dawn. «We are going to block large operators: cargo transportation, passengers, logistics, transportation of funds …“, Thierry Duane, President of CFTC-Transports, assured earlier this month.
In Hauts-de-France, two filtration dams were installed at the entrances to two major logistics areas, one at the exit from Lille and the other near Aras (Pas-de-Calais), creating large queues of cars at peak hours. In Lille, at the exit of the highway to Valencia, about fifty people were mobilized in orange CFDT vests, closing the exit to the Mélantois business district, not far from the airport. They distributed leaflets to drivers criticizing “ostrich policy“In terms of salary”և heads of government: transport“Although”Consecutive increases due to rapid և exponential inflation, severe shortage of workers (…) և purchasing power, which melts like snow under the sun.«. In Rennes, according to Bison Fûté, a plug about 18 km east of the city was formed due to a truck crash.
A little later in the morning, the industrial areas of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), Caen (Calvados) և Moisi-Cramayel (Saint-Marne) in turn slowed down the filter dams. The trucks intend to place the same device in front of the Amazon warehouse near Metz. All road transport professionals, including truck drivers but also bus drivers, ambulance workers or money transferrs, are called by the strike union, which consists of CGT, CFDT, FO, CFTC և CFE From CGC.
Other strikes in October?
The unions demandUnconditional reopening of real NAOs (mandatory annual negotiations, editor’s note) in all areasroad transport, engageRapid և exponential inflation, severe shortage of staff due to lack of attractiveness in all areas of CCNTR“Եւ one”The purchasing power of employees melting like snow«.
Contracts were signed in the car transport of goods in February last year (revaluation of salary scales by 6%), but “they are already overdue“Because it fell the least below Smic,” Thierry Dunn said, due to inflation, which rose to 5.2% in May from a year earlier, according to INSEE. «You need to review the method աք go back to the table, I would say every three or four monthsTaking into account the inflation context, he insisted at the RBC microphone. «You have areas where there is extreme tension in terms of employment, especially schoolchildren, where there is a shortage of 8 to 10 thousand drivers, trade in goods, where there are 50 thousand vacancies.“He emphasized.”. «Modernization of ordinary networks in the field of cash and valuables transport for seven years“The trade unions are indignant. In the field of logistics, companies in the fieldstick to their obscene offer to raise conditional rates by 3%“, They add.
This mobilization is only “a First day:“- warns Patrice Kloss, head of FO Transports. «If they do not listen to us, the government should know that we will start longer operations in October“, He said on the air of Franceinfo. Thus, a new social crisis is maturing in one area, transport, which has not yet been appointed Minister in the government of Elizabeth Bourne.
Source: Le Figaro
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