The cleaning staff of the public toilets of the City of Geneva together with their union SIT organised strike actions throughout the city. They say that management fails to answers various problems that they experience during their work. The demands of the strikers are as follows: the withdrawal of an unfair dismissal of a unionized colleague, a halt to the flexibilisation of working hours with respect of the working schedules and the Labour Act, a stop to wage cuts via the decrease of working time, to be obliged to work every Sunday and the companies compliance with the law on occupational benefits.
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