The association for the fight against AIDS AIDES has been on strike since June 21. Its employees are mobilizing against pay inequalities with successive General Managers and their poor working conditions.
“If we are suffering, how can we continue to support, mobilize and screen the 820,400 people we meet each year?”, Deplore the majority of the members of the AIDS association AIDES, on strike since Thursday June 21 . That day, 84% of the 480 employees were on strike, and 63 of the 74 reception centers were closed. The movement must at least last until Tuesday, June 26.
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– Antoine Foucaut (@FoucautAntoine) June 25, 2018
Psycho-social risks
“The precariousness of work, the lack of recognition and resources, the ever greater demands on the workload have led to psycho-social risks, a high turnover (assumed by the management) and an explosion in the number of sick leaves “, explain the strikers again. According to figures communicated by Renaud Delacroix, staff representative at AIDES, the turnover in 2017 was 24% for all employees and 28% for animators, “which is enormous”.
Is also mentioned “the inequalities of remuneration between the successive General Directorates and the employees”, with reference to a check of several thousand euros which Vincent Pelletier, the former general manager of the association, received at the time of its transition from Aid to another association, Coalition Plus. “A great malaise is rumbling among the militants following the departure of the former general manager (Vincent Pelletier, editor’s note) with a bonus that has been estimated between 55,000 and 60,000 euros”, underlines Renaud Delacroix in Komitid.fr.
“The negotiation is in progress”
Employees also deplore not receiving a bonus this year, against 800 euros in 2017, as well as a salary increase of 15 euros deemed insufficient. An employee of Île-de-France from AIDES confides: “We all love the cause that we defend, viscerally, but we can only be optimal and peaceful to do what is expected of us if our working conditions are decent and that fairness and recognition are applied. “
The general manager of Aide, Marc Dixneuf, explains for his part to Release that “the negotiations are in progress”, and that “we raised the low wages and granted a bonus. I wish to continue in this direction, within the limit of an organization of which half of the resources is dependent on private financing” .
An association recognized as being of public utility
The mobilization has already made it possible to ensure that the hours worked on Sundays are double counted and that the weeks of paid leave go from 6 to 7 per year. While waiting for an evolution of the conflict, the reception centers of the AIDES association open one hour every morning to explain the demands of the employees, before closing their doors.
AIDES is an association created in 1984 and recognized as a public utility since 1990. The association carries out information, prevention, support and mobilization actions for people affected by HIV and hepatitis.
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