In Marseille, hospital workers at Les Baumettes are on strike

Slogans painted on sheets, rap hits blasting from the sound system, professional badges pinned to white coats, picnic tables set up under a hackberry tree: a few dozen hospital workers from Les Baumettes gathered on Tuesday, August 12, in front of the entrance to the Marseille prison. On a rolling strike called by the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) since August 8, these nurses, nursing assistants, psychologists, and medical secretaries, all staff members of the Marseille Public Hospitals Assistance (AP-HM) working in detention, are mobilizing to defend leave specific to their status.

Since 1994, they have benefited from ten additional days per year and there are currently 93 paramedical professionals affected by this measure. The management of the AP-HM wishes to discuss the gradual withdrawal of this system, specific to Baumettes, which it describes as "exorbitant to the law" and evokes a concern for fairness with other services in prisons which do not benefit from it. The hospital staff of the La Valentine juvenile detention center have joined the movement to demand these leaves called "C16" , denouncing "a flagrant and unjustified inequality between staff" .

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