Asbestos exposure, job insecurity, violence: in Paris, agents win a union victory after an unlimited strike
Staff at the capital's administrative domiciliation service, who have been on an indefinite strike for two weeks to protest working conditions undermined by a construction site, won their case on Tuesday, July 29. The UNSA and CGT unions were demanding a €140 bonus. A monitoring committee will be appointed to address demands related to the permanent status of contract workers.
This is undoubtedly a union victory. On an indefinite strike for nearly two weeks to protest their "untenable" working conditions, the 12 agents of Paris Adresse, a service of the Paris City Social Action Center (CASVP), learned mid-afternoon on July 29 that their demands had finally been heard.
Their management agreed to their request for a bonus of 140 euros gross per month starting July 1, 2025, and set up a monitoring committee for their other demands, including the permanent status of precarious employees.
The announcement on Friday, July 25, of the discovery of asbestos fibers "at a level above the regulatory threshold" in the air of their premises located within a building under construction will certainly have played an accelerating role in the City's decision.
In the eyes of the UNSA and the CGT, this discovery – even if it is...
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