"We are sticking to our positions: no school transport will be provided until all of the invoices due have actually been received on the accounts of all the companies awarded", underlines the collective of transport companies, in a press release.
Too many broken payment promises since the start of the 2019 school year have led to a manifest lack of confidence in the Community.
We were informed by the press that school transport was going to resume yesterday Monday, after a solution was quickly found Friday afternoon to remove all the blockages. We remain surprised because NEVER we will accept to resume services without the actual payment of our services.
This speed in finding a solution also surprises us, even though we had informed the Community of our difficulties several months ago! Why delay so long?
We find it unfortunate that only our refusal to provide school transportation was able to push decision-makers to find a quick solution to trigger payment for our services.
Our companies are out of breath and a partial payment will not allow us to pay back wages as well as operating expenses.
We have heard the Community's apologies for the “inconvenience” caused, but these excuses do not pay our employees who themselves have families for which they are responsible.
Thus, without the TOTAL payment of the sums due and this, to ALL the companies no transport will be carried out.
We have been contacted by many companies, contract holders with the Collectivity, who are in the same situation… We think we will organize ourselves so that from now on the follow-up of our payments will be carried out with the same rigor as that which is imposed on us for the provision of our services.
Today, only transport with a private agreement has been made.
For your information, at the time of this email, we have still not seen anything on our accounts ”.
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