(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #250 - unionism, BNF:
Unpaid Overtime, the broom! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
On April 21, the employees of the cleaning of the National Library of France signed a
protocol ending conflict after eleven days of strike. In the key: hiring on permanent
contracts and one hundred hours of work in addition to divide between wage earners. ----
Eleven days of strike have allowed wage earners Onet in charge of cleaning the BNF to
their demands. Forty-two of the forty-four employee-es-es were entered into indefinite
strike on 9 April. Mainly union members in SUD-Culture, they and were supported by all-es
of the Inter BNF. ---- Market discount ---- The wage earners denounced the understaffed
and demanded the allocation of a volume of overtime for part-time employees and hires.
Since the market recovery by Onet in January 2013, the number originally seventy-one
people, overwhelmingly part-time, came down to forty-four, following incentives from the
company, without there has been redistribution of hours lost or new hires.
At the same time, the amount of work she has not decreased, causing an overload schedules
and extremely poor working conditions. This situation has logical consequences for the
proliferation of absences, accidents and the company's pressures on agents who remain.
This strike did not concern the business provider, Onet, it has also placed the BNF before
his donor about responsibilities. In public institutions, outsourcing of part of the
activities for thirty years, such as cleaning, restoration or monitoring, led to the
tendering companies who pull the price down to win the market.
This strike did not concern the business provider, Onet, it has also placed the BNF before
its responsibilities.
Marieau Palacio
The direction of the BNF, interpelée on working conditions for wage earners cleaning,
trying to absolve themselves of responsibility on the provider company and denies having
declined the contract amount. Onet argues the weakness of the budget for discard. Each and
returns the responsibility on the other. Meanwhile it is the wage earners who suffer the
consequences.
Organizing against isolation
The market renewals lead wage earners site cleanup BFM to change employers every three or
four years. Each time, you have to fight to preserve the conditions of employment and
social gains that have been subject to prior agreements. The system supports both the
precariousness and instability of working life. The bursting of the yards, mobility
clauses 1 and multiplicity of imposed part-time undermine the will to break invisibility,
out of isolation and build collective mobilizations.
As for union office, they fall for each contract renewal and union representation is she,
rebuild in the incoming box. BFM on the site, cleaning agents have, in the past, led a
struggle against the mobility clause and they and have obtained to make it disappear from
their employment contracts.
Thanks to the relative stability of teams for the removal of this clause, the staff have
built real links between them and them to act and fight together. And it pays off: strike
output protocol signed on 21 April provides the hiring of three part-time CDI, assigning a
hundred overtime, payment of three days of strike and holding a working group to address
issues related to hardware.
Charline (friend of AL)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?BNF-Heures-sup-non-payees-du-balai
