2023-08-11 02:22:47
The mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, issued an order on Thursday ordering the SNCF to clean the Saint-Charles station, where the employees of a private cleaning company have been on strike since August 1 for non-payment of their wages.
“This decree is justified by the risks of fires and unsanitary conditions caused by the accumulation of garbage”, explained the town hall in a press release, while cans, food packaging and various rubbish accumulate in this station which is one of the largest in France.
The PS mayor of the city issued an order “under his police powers, by which he orders the company SNCF Gares et Connexions to proceed without delay to the removal of waste and cleaning of the station”, detailed the town hall of Marseilles. “In order to guarantee the health and safety of all, the municipality will ensure the execution” of the decree she specified.
The company claims to have paid its employees
“More than a dozen (employees, editor’s note) received no salary for the month of June, and many were only paid half. And for several months no one has received a pay slip ”, lamented in a press release employees represented by the CAT Cleaning union, the Union syndicale Solidaires des Bouches-du-Rhône and SUD-Rail Provence-Alpes-Côte d ‘Azure. They claim in this press release to have “filed a complaint” this Thursday against their employer, Laser Propreté, denouncing the actions of a “rogue boss”.
For its part, the private company, also in charge of cleaning the metro, said on Wednesday that “all salaries had been paid” on July 31.
Saint-Charles station has already experienced two previous cleaning strikes in 2023. Each year, nearly 16 million travelers pass through Marseille’s main station.
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