Thursday 9 April 2015

A whiff of trouble in Marseille

We have probably all been in close proximity of someone who, to be polite, was not too fragrant. Indeed the scent of wet dog, donkey and spraying cat is not unknown around Mas del Sol, but we try not to take it about with us.
But a Romany camp in Marseille is causing problems with certain bus drivers on the line serving the area where the travellers are installed. Lack of sanitary facilities at the camp mean that the people taking the bus are a bit ripe, causing some drivers to complain that their working conditions are insupportable, a condition confirmed by the Inspection du Travail.
The transport operators are sympathetic and are deep cleaning the buses and even considering withdrawing the service. A difficult balance between the rights of workers to have decent conditions and the rights of poor people to travel as freely as others. Rather than discriminating against the passengers one union suggested that money be spent on toilet blocks at the site.
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