At the beginning of October 2024, employees of Réunion Valorisation Environnement (RVE) launched a strike to express their refusal to see their company bought by the Suez group. One month later, this Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the strike resumed. In fact, the multinational would refuse to invest on a minority basis. According to angry employees, Suez France “wants to force the sale” (Photo: sly/www.imazpress.com)
In 2023, the company RVE, specializing in the collection, treatment and recovery of waste, launched a call for tenders for a sale because the figures for 2021 and 2022 were not good. But according to employee representatives, “in the meantime the company has resurfaced a little”, and there would be no urgency to sell.
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Following the movement in October, the manager would also have made announcements to ensure “that there would be no more sales of majority shares in favor of the Suez group.” According to a staff representative interviewed this morning, during the last interview with Paul Soubaya, the manager and creator of RVE was clear about his desire to keep the company. “Its lawyers contacted Suez to find out if they still wanted to buy minority shares and they received a categorical refusal,” continues the staff representative.
Still according to the strikers, the Suez group “refuses to have a minority share in the company RVE and wishes to “force the sale”. We have been made aware of this and, as employees, we no longer wish to sell the company. Financially everything is going very well, everything is going well with the employees, whether on the human or professional side, we categorically refuse to allow Suez to take over RVE.”
– “We don't want to lose this Reunion heritage” –
The staff representatives wrote to the president of the Region, to the deputies as well as to the France Suez company. Letters which to this day remain unanswered, hence the anger which is expressed again. “We are really asking them for support. We have existed for 18 years, we do not want to lose this Reunion heritage.”
The strike notice lasts until the end of the week. Until then, several tonnes of waste risk not being treated and accumulating on the roadsides and at collection points.
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