In Caen, the controllers of a bus line forced to rely migrants – Le Figaro

controllers have not accepted the memo from their direction requiring them to regularly count the number of migrants aboard the line 61 linking Caen Ouistreham. The case will be brought by the unions before the Committee of Hygiene and Safety Working Conditions.

controllers and bus drivers shocked. The memo from the direction of the Twisto transport company is very wrong on the part of employees of the line 61 which connects Caen Ouistreham. In this note revealed by France Bleu Normandie is asked drivers to “make two checks on line 61 per team. The prefecture asks us to maintain this level of presence. If you suspect the establishment of squat, thank you to trace information (specific place). ” This note is accompanied by a table with two separate columns: “Number of controlled migrants”, “Number of Migrants verbalized.”

Unions, outraged, decided to take the case to the CHSCT (Health and Safety Committee of Working Conditions). “Officers have alerted us,” says Samuel Varnier, CGT secretary of the HSC Twisto to France Bleu Normandie. “They are very uncomfortable, some refuse also to do what count.” Thierry POULLENNEC, old retired bus controller questioned by Le Figaro , the measure “is not reminiscent of a dark period of our history”, ie the raids of the Second World War. And very strong words that may seem disproportionate but that reflect the anger of workers Twisto

The document on which controllers must register the number of these migrant aboard the line 61

This bus line, especially taken by the migrants, would be monitored by the state services. Indeed, Ouistreham became after Calais, eldorado of migrants who dream of boarding the ferry towards Britain. But this practice offends control. “I myself have witnessed blitz, facies, especially before stopping the Gold Tower. This is not our work, it’s not in our oaths and the principle is shocking, “Thierry will prevail POULLENNEC. “If we do nothing against this, in the current context, it may drift dangerously.”

According to France 3 Normandie, several elected representatives of Greater Caen la Mer asked to stop these targeted controls in a letter sent to the President of the agglomeration. While Twisto company said it “is instructed to redirect the Prefecture for the story from there,” the Calvados prefecture she categorically denied having asked such FILING.

The release of the CGT union

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