“We are on the road all day, we do physical work, sometimes handling, we sometimes find ourselves confronted with social difficulties… And there is a real lack of salary recognition,” breathes Hoël Drot, Force Ouvrière union representative. within Jussieu Secours, of the Keolis Santé Nord-Finistère group. It employs nearly 90 people, including administrative staff, in the region of Brest and Saint-Renan. “Some, to have a decent salary, have no choice but to chase overtime and work 45 or 48 hour weeks. So much so that it can become dangerous,” says the union representative.
It is to assert these different demands and demand less restrictive and more attractive working conditions that an indefinite strike notice was filed as of this Wednesday, November 6, 2024, from 8 p.m. for night shifts, but no longer especially from Thursday.
15,000 ambulance drivers missing in France
“It’s a profession that is poorly recognized with unfortunately a very high turnover,” regrets Hoël Drot who estimates the number of ambulance drivers missing in France at 15,000. “We feel it locally,” he adds. We have vehicles that remain in the garage certain days due to lack of staff.” “These are professions in tension,” Bénédicte Brochet, North-West regional director of Keolis Santé, told us in April.
Despite a meeting with the president and CEO at the beginning of October, none of the demands formulated by union organizations from the various Jussieu Secours companies, dependent on the Keolis Santé group, were heard. Hence the strike.
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