They are office managers or canteen assistants in the schools of Saint-Nazaire and they want the same bonus as their Logistics cook colleagues. That is between 85 and 110 euros per month. All last week, they demonstrated at lunchtime under the windows of the town hall and the movement continues. The notice runs until October 21. A meeting is announced this Monday noon between the strikers and Céline Paillard, the assistant in charge of human resources, but the town hall recently confided to France Bleu Loire Océan its reluctance to “give in under pressure”. “Office manager and cook, these are not the same professions, nor the same categories”explained Céline Paillard.
The parents taste
In the meantime, those who taste it are the parents. It’s necessary juggle between work, lunch break, round trips, meals. Without taking part in the conflict, most of them moreover rather united with the “ladies of the canteen”, the parents are resigned or at the end of their tether. Some manage to organize themselves, to take several children and to make shifts. But overall, it’s racing. “It is not tenable. If this continues, we will go picnicking in the hall of the town hall with our employers, because for them too, these last minute adjustments are no longer tolerable” protests a mother who came to pick up her two daughters from Pierre and Marie Curie school this Friday. “Really overwhelmed”to the point of writing to the mayor. “With all due respect for his position, he needs to find a solution urgently”.
Especially since last year was trying: “I counted: 19 days of strike. And there, we are at the 6th? Between catering and extracurricular, there is a real dysfunction in the public schools of Saint-Nazaire, I would like someone to explain to me why”.
It only takes one agent sometimes to close an entire canteen” – Saint-Nazaire town hall
The town hall sent a press release to parents before the weekend to remind them that it has already disbursed 4 million euros this year for the revaluation of salaries in the public service and that he”sometimes one agent is enough to close an entire canteen”.
Negotiations promise to be lively around the table this afternoon. A strike that makes people happy despite everything. “We always prefer to eat at home, in the canteen, it’s not good!” shout in chorus the children, at the exit of the midday.
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