Around forty CGT activists and supporters gathered symbolically on Quai Port Neuf on Thursday, June 27, to demand the reinstatement of a colleague on a fixed-term contract who had been dismissed by Voies Navigables de France, where he had worked for 16 years.
“After 16 years, he learned last March that he would not be reappointed”says Nadia Bazri, secretary of the CGT union for VNF Sud-Ouest, who came specially from Toulouse to Béziers, this Thursday, June 27. With about forty other activists, on the Port Neuf quay, she is participating in this gathering for the defense and reinstatement of Jonathan, who worked for 16 years as a seasonal worker on the locks of the Canal des Deux Mers. At the rate of 7 and a half months per year. Last year, he joined the CGT union. “We contacted the Cada (Commission for Access to Administrative Documents – Editor’s note) to consult his file: his professional evaluations were positive until 2023, at which point he would have changed his behavior according to management”explains Nadia Bazri. “However, the Béziers centre has accumulated difficulties, in a particular context.” “So today, we continue to fight, we have filed an appeal, we are not giving up.”
