“He spoke to speak”

“I didn’t listen because I knew what they were going to say.” In Pointe-à-Pitre, in the entrance of the CHU where the picket line is held Lena, a suspended caregiver, preferred to listen to music rather than the Prime Minister, Monday, November 22. “They have no solution for us”, lets go of the caregiver, who believes that the solution is precisely “to remove this stupid law!”

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The rejection of the compulsory vaccination of caregivers is the essence of the unlimited strike movement launched a week ago on the island. After a meeting with elected officials and parliamentarians from Guadeloupe, Jean Castex announced Monday evening that he will not go back on this obligation but proposed “a forum for dialogue” to support unvaccinated caregivers.

The creation of this “body” to convince and support non-vaccinated caregivers is a pure waste of time, summarizes Roselyne who would have preferred that we “creates a commission to be in tune with what we feel and which is then translated to our parliamentarians. Because what is illogical since the strike notice was issued is that no one has met us. “

“How can people go talk to us not knowing what we want.”

Roselyne, caregiver

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Same feeling with Stéphanie, laboratory technician: “We asked for a negotiation on our demands, and not yet another explanation of the interest of vaccination. That’s not what we want.” Caregivers whose conviction remains unchanging. “We turn arround, launches one of them. People who have decided not to get the vaccine are convinced. We’re not going to go back. Me, I remain in my position, namely that I will not take the vaccine. “

At the Sdis des Abymes barracks, this “forum for dialogue” does not convince the firefighters, who are also concerned. “We are ready to go all the way and lose our job if necessary, but we will not go back on this decision”, says Lieutenant Gustave Gabriel, group leader at the rescue center and staff representative.

For Mythonia, also a firefighter, the Prime Minister’s intervention brings nothing: “He spoke to speak. He seeks to do more or less a mediation. But it’s been four months that we are in the street to walk every Saturday and no member of the government and even the politicians of Guadeloupe have sought to understand what happens.” When asked what would be negotiable, he considers the possibility “to set up PCR tests at each check-up”.

“There is room for negotiation, but first you have to want to listen to us.”

Mythonia, firefighter

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A mission from the Ministry of the Interior will be activated from Tuesday to examine with health professionals the conditions for the deployment of the vaccination obligation.