The President of the Collectivity Daniel Gibbs decided last week to resort to the law by means of an “hour to hour” summary so that the “blockages” of the services of the Saint-Martin Collectivity are lifted as quickly as possible. . It is on this question that the lawyers of the UNIT-978 union and of the Collectivity of Saint-Martin looked into this morning in the court of Basse-Terre.
Present at the Saint-Martin local court, Albert Blake of the UNIT-978 union followed the pleadings by videoconference. For the lawyer seized by the Collectivity of Saint-Martin, the blockages are obvious while for the council of the union, the services of the Collectivity are functioning. There is therefore no unlawful disturbance, she argued, inviting the Tribunal to think that the blocking of the street was the result of public works and not a roadblock for strikers. Words then contradicted by Albert Blake at the end of the hearing when the floor was given to him by the Court. “This is the sincere side, once again, of the UNIT-978 union,” he said. Albert Blake also wished to respond to the defense lawyer 's plea, according to which the actions and blockades of the union did not respect the laws of the Republic. “Segregation, discrimination is our fight. What you said does not reflect the reality on the ground. To strike otherwise, we do not know. We see much worse elsewhere and we find this strike and nice. We haven't broken or vandalized anything. We are doing these strikes and roadblocks to attract attention and get out of this slump ”. The deliberation will be delivered on August 10 by the Court of Basse-Terre. The strike will continue, declared Albert Blake when he left the local court, awaited by his supporters, including the UNSa Territoriaux union.
Progress in the negotiations
A new meeting was held on Wednesday August 4 at the end of the morning between the unions UNIT-978, UNSa Territoriaux and the elected officials of the Collectivity of Saint-Martin. A meeting of nearly 3:30 am during which could be approached "for the first time in a month" the demands 2 to 30 of the union UNIT-978 in the notice of strike of July 2, informs the Collectivity of Saint-Martin. A major advance in the negotiations, "clarification made that the delegation of elected officials / technicians was not authorized to express themselves on the enumeration of the points and the comments which may have been made by the unions" nevertheless notes Daniel Gibbs in a letter addressed to the Secretary General of UNIT-978.
The departure of the DGS is not on the agenda
At the end of the session, the union returned to the heart of the discord at the origin of the standoff between UNIT-978 and the Collectivity of Saint-Martin, namely the request for departure from the director general of the services to which the strikers criticize in particular his high salary, his repeated absences from the territory and the advantages offered to him in his post. "The facts exposed and criticized at the head of the General Directorate of Services of the Collectivity of Saint-Martin do not justify the decision of local elected officials to end the mission entrusted to him" informs President Daniel Gibbs.
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