Last Tuesday, a power outage left an Ehpad and a dialysis center in Pas-de-Calais dark all day. Rejecting the accusation of a wild cut operated by strikers, the CGT denied any responsibility and assured that it was a classic network failure. And CGT unionists visited the residents of the nursing home in question this Friday morning, flowers in hand.
“We came to apologize for the inconvenience you experienced during this day,” explains Nicolás Cuvillier, federal leader of CGT Energía, at the BFMTV microphone. “We are in a social movement where we demand certain actions”, but “here, for once, it is a rupture of networks that was not caused by the strikers”, maintains the trade unionist, indicating that the actions carried out by the CGT do not aim “in any time” to nursing homes or hospitals.
“It is not normal”
For the latter, “what these people have experienced is not normal.” “We demand a public service with strong means to avoid” these power outages, he adds. The power outage “had a very big impact,” underlines Simon Fournier, director of Ehpad Georges-Honoré. “We avoided the disaster but it could have been much more dramatic,” he continues, also thanking the CGT for this “symbolic gesture to reassure the residents.”
“It was really a difficult day,” said one resident. “For the healthy ones it was fine, but for the others in a wheelchair, in their completely dark room, it wasn’t fun,” he recalls.
Source: BFM TV
