CGT activists gathered to demand the reinstatement of a colleague on a fixed-term contract at VNF

Les militants de la CGT se sont retrouvés au bord du canal du Midi. Midi Libre – Mélissa Alcoléa

Around forty activists and sympathizers of the CGT gathered symbolically at Quai Port Neuf, this Thursday, June 27, to demand the reinstatement of a colleague on a fixed-term contract 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", coward Nadia Bazri, secretary of the CGT union for VNF Sud-Ouest, came specially from Toulouse to Béziers, this Thursday, June 27. With around forty other activists, on the Port Neuf quay, she participated in this gathering for the defense and reintegration of Jonathan, who worked for 16 years as a seasonal worker on the locks of the Canal des Deux Mers . For 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 laudatory until 2023, he would have then changed behavior depending on the direction", explains Nadia Bazri. "But the Béziers center has accumulated difficulties, in a particular context." "So today, we continue to fight, we have appealed, we are not giving up."