Some 600 tons of waste have accumulated on the streets of two districts of Marseille following a strike by garbage collectors from a Veolia subsidiary since Friday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday, October 30. responsible for garbage collection.
in the 3my In the district, located near the Saint-Charles train station and where 53,000 people live, containers are overflowing and bags of garbage are piling up on the road. The strike of the garbage collectors of the Bronzo company, a subsidiary of the Veolia group, also affects the 14my neighboring district where 60,000 people live.
“The metropolis is closely monitoring the ongoing social conflict within the Bronzo company. (…). Currently there are 600 tons left uncollected. The metropolis has installed ten garbage containers in the affected districts to guarantee a minimum service during the strike.specified the urban community headed by Martine Vassal (right).
“Greater workload”
The 160 Bronzo agents in charge of collecting waste and cleaning sidewalks denounce the lack of resources to carry out their mission while “The metropolis, in its new tender won by Bronzo in April, reduced financial resources and, consequently, the frequencies of services on alternate days”Denis Ferrandino, departmental secretary of the CFDT for this sector of activity, told AFP.
“The workload is greater, there are many pressures and few resources”he added. “We wonder if the metropolis has the will to allocate resources to these poor neighborhoods”continuous.
” Of [mardi]“Concrete proposals have been made as part of the ongoing negotiations.”commented Veolia Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. “We are aware of the inconvenience that this situation may cause to the residents of 13my and 14my districts and do everything possible to quickly resolve this conflict.”the company added.
Denis Ferrandino clarified that some of the proposals, which he considers “waves”It will be presented to employees on Thursday.
Marseille, France’s second largest city, periodically suffers strikes related to waste collection. At the beginning of 2022, the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, although it is not his responsibility, had to “intervene urgently” private dump trucks to try to collect the piles of garbage that threaten to end up in the sea with the strong mistral after a two-week strike by garbage collectors.
