Usually, avenue de l’Épi d’Or in Villejuif, dump trucks only have to take the ramp to dump their load into a gigantic metal funnel.
But impossible to reach the “compactor” of the recycling center this Thursday: a mountain of trash bags barred access to the machine which, in any case, is broken down.
Between congestion and “rats”, the situation has become untenable for municipal officials assigned to the maintenance of outdoor spaces. Fifteen of them, considering themselves facing a “serious and imminent danger”, decided to exercise their right of withdrawal.
“It’s been four weeks since the compactor malfunctioned, plague a roadmender. Trash and bulky collected in the city, however, continue to arrive and the site is completely saturated. “
Supported by representatives of the CGT of the territorial members of the Health and Safety Committee (CHSCT), the employees listed their grievances to a delegation of service managers this Thursday morning.
A “legitimate alert” in the eyes of the municipality (Union of citizens). In the early afternoon, she announced that “the compactor is being repaired”, and that a new machine “ordered in January” would be delivered within eight weeks.
