Many Rouen schools are closed or disrupted this Monday, December 7 due to a strike by some staff, launched at the call of the CGT. Maintenance agents and Atsem are asking for better working conditions, especially with the surplus of activities linked to the Covid.
Thirty nursery and elementary schools are closed this Monday, December 7 in Rouen, others will not be able to provide half board and reception at the meridian break, or even receive children during extracurricular time.
The strike of certain maintenance agents, Atsem or municipal animators more or less disrupts the operation of the 54 schools in the city, depending on the personnel involved in one or other of the establishments.
The strike was launched at the call of the CGT. Despite two notice negotiation meetings with the administration, the parties could not come to an agreement.
Due to the number of strikers, the supervision rate is therefore not sufficient to properly receive the students, especially since the Covid involves additional procedures.
Rouen: 34 schools closed following the strike by some of the territorial staff
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A hundred demonstrators therefore gathered in front of the Rouen town hall at the end of the morning to request that a delegation be received by the direction of the children’s time service, which manages both school life and extracurricular activities. .
A dispute not settled
The dispute began in early September when it came to putting in place new procedures to fight the Covid epidemic.
Territorial agents have been given new tasks, including additional cleaning. However, the city of Rouen has chosen to outsource these new skills to an integration and cleaning company.
Nearly 500 maintenance agents and territorial agents work in the city’s schools.
Some have full-time contracts, others have to be satisfied with a few hours, often insufficient to live properly. Small contracts which therefore saw in these overtime hours a great opportunity to work more.
Since November 4, the municipality has therefore given up on outsourcing this cleaning work, but without giving overtime to those who only have small contracts.
The administration preferred to ask agents who have a full-time permanent contract to work more.
There are staff! We get people to sign contracts at 10 a.m. a week. However, they have signaled to management to say that they want to work more. Why do we call on outside companies when they are there?
The strikers are also asking for an additional maintenance worker in each school in the city, recognition of the Covid as an occupational disease, better career development, the repeal of the waiting day which pushes the agents to come to work while they are patients, or the systematic replacement of agents when they are absent.
If no concertation is successful, the CGT and the striking agents have already filed a new notice renewable from December 10 to 18.
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