Several trade union organizations of motorway companies are calling for strike this summer

Several unions of the Estérel-Côte d’Azur motorway company (Escota) call for strike over the summer, to denounce “Reorganizations and decreases of important workforce” and ask “An increase in wages“, But the effects should be limited for users, according to unions. Employees of the Estérel-Côte d’Azur motorways, company of the Vinci group which manages in particular the A8, are called upon to stop work from July 1 to 31, said the CFDT, the first union organization of the motorway branch.

For its part, the CGT, the second union in Escota, filed a strike notice from June 15 to September 15 on the entire Vinci Autoroutes network. “At the arrival of Vinci in 2007, we were almost 2,000 employees, today, we find ourselves at less than 900. So obviously, working conditions are deteriorating. Employees become multitasking, pose leave becomes a daily battle, nothing is going well, while at the level of the highways, it is the jackpot every year”A deplored Stéphane Vian, CGT Escota delegate. Unions notably require permanent hiring for all sectors and an increase in wages “In line with the flourishing situation of the company”SADDLE M. to you.

The UNSA-Autoroutes also filed a strike notice from July 1 to 31 which concerns all the employees of Escota, according to a press release from the union. “What worries us is the way in which Vinci manages, who seeks by 2032 to make maximum benefit, and for that decreased the workforce enough with a lot of subcontracting, even in the sectors of track marking on the highway, sanitary, mowing”alerted Hérald Leclerq, UNSA-Autoroutes union representative.