Port of Marseille: the bastion of the CGT threatened
February 20, 2012 – 10:00 am
CGT may be the big loser of the port reform. Professional elections that take place Tuesday at the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM) could result in the union for the loss of its majority. It would be a revolution after more than sixty-five years of co-management of the first French port with the State.
The reform has involved the shutdown of port operations in direct port facilities, which were focused on their governing powers and development. Port handling has been transferred to private.
Consequently, in Marseille, 196 drivers and maintenance workers porticos of this equipment for loading or unloading boats left Grand Harbour to join the dockers private companies handling. 215 oil terminal operators have also been transferred to a new subsidiary, Fluxel, created with oil who took a third of the capital.
A slow erosion
As a result, the number of GPMM fell from 1459 to 1048 people, having lost most of its workers. However, it is in this category that the CGT was the most votes. The union had obtained 56% of the vote, all colleges combined, in the last election business in 2009. He had already suffered a slow erosion of its position still above 70% in the late 1990s.
The other unions (FO, CFDT, Spicpam …) long marginalized now feel grow wings. "The relationship between blue collar and white collar workers was reversed, says Emile Rodriguez, president of the National Confederation of port workers and assimilated (CNTPA), a union not a majority group in the port of Dunkirk, which took up to Marseille during the reform. But the CGT does everything to keep its majority and not lose the management of charities and its bonanza of 2.86% of payroll. "
"The CGT has not succeeded in creating an economic and social unit that would have to pass all the employees and GPMM Fluxel. But she managed to get the votes of both institutions are grouped for the election of staff representatives and works council representatives. This is totally illegal, "says another trade unionist.
"The Labour Inspectorate has not yet decided and the district court, we had before the deadline, either. We must delay the elections because if they occur they are not representative and we will remedy in order to cancel "warns Emile Rodriguez. They will still have the merit of allowing an initial count of troops in the new scope of the Grand Harbour.
Sailors of SNCM CGT called the strike
Sailors of the CGT of the SNCM and South, ferry companies serving Corsica, decided to launch a strike call from Friday, February 24. They feel their jobs are threatened by competition from "low-cost airlines", especially Corsica Ferries, beating the Italian flag. Sailors of the CGT hope that during the supervisory board of SNCM to be held Friday, the state – which owns 25% stake in the company – will decide to suspend the connection Toulon-Bastia which resumed Last Friday, after weeks of strike by the CGT. The union objected to the opening of this line, also operated by Corsica Ferries. The Competition Authority has asked the authorities in Corsica to redefine the needs of services to the island to avoid subsidizing the lines too little traffic.
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