In Grenoble, the employees of the municipality suffer the brutal exploitation
that the green mayor is so fond of denouncing. This is particularly the case inextracurricular activities, a largely feminized sector where, despite theprecariousness, the revolt is brewing. Aiming for the presidential election, theEELV mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, likes to talk about social issues by showingoff, for example, to bicycle delivery men to denounce "uberization". ----However, that does not prevent the workers of the municipality ruled by itsmajority, to live in working conditions to make the worst multinationals greenwith jealousy. Constant understaffing, derisory salaries, permanent turnover,impossible hours ... if this reality affects all jobs in the city, the mostobvious case is that of school workers.And the key to this institutionalized precariousness is notably the "hourlycontract", which concerns more than 70% of the facilitators. This public lawstatus makes it possible to pay an agent for a variable number of hours accordingto needs. Impossible for this one to know in advance how many hours it will beable to work in the month, nor on which days. Salaries are therefore veryunstable: the good months can bring in 800 euros, but often you will have to becontent with 300 euros.The greed of the town hall does not only impact wages, it also imposes deplorableworking conditions. Because of the understaffing, the officers are regularlymoved from one school to another to fill the gaps, sometimes notified less thanan hour before taking up their post. As for the schedules, the time betweenmidday and evening services (the most common) is done on a voluntary basis, tothe detriment of the quality of work: almost all of them have to improvise andhave the feeling of doing more babysitting than animation.A strike BUILT BY THE precariousDespite this brutal management, mobilizing is not easy for the agents, mostlywomen from immigrant backgrounds, already juggling their work, a family burdenand an administrative battle for their residence permit. And for a long time, theshyness of the majority unions at the town hall did not help to make the linkbetween the 77 schools in the city.Things started to change in the spring of 2020, amid anger exacerbated by thehealth crisis. A few highly motivated agents, unionized SUD or CNT, went onvisiting schools for weeks to meet hundreds of employees. This work made itpossible to bring together several GAs, who voted for a day of strike on November17th. To everyone's surprise, this call, supported by a strike fund, was followedby more than 400 out of 1,000 agents ! A month later, most of the city's canteenswere blocked by a walkout every noon.Following this, the town hall reacted with a "deprecarization protocol", anillusion that fooled no one: only a few dozen tenure holdersand a ridiculousincrease in the working hours of animation. Despite everything, we have thefeeling of having progressed by freeing the voice of a part of the salariedworkforce that we rarely hear. A word that could prove embarrassing for theaspiring President of the Republic.The school tour has resumed and we are already talking about the return ofgeneral assemblies, the revolt in the animation is far from having said its lastword !Thomas (UCL Grenoble)https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Animation-La-Ville-de-Grenoble-patronne-sans-scrupules_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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