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| Ils étaient peu, mais bruyants. Photo : rke |
[ Cape Canaveral (FLA), July 13th, 2012, © (rke),
english below ] – Décidément, ça va mal du côté de la NASA. Une dizaine de
membres du Transport Workers Union représentant les pompiers, les ambulanciers
et les vigies du Kennedy Space Center ont protesté mercredi aux alentours de
centre spatial, vers la sortie 3 (SR 3), juste en face de l’office des badges
de presse. Ils ont voulu attirer l’attention sur la réduction de 20% de leur
salaire et le doublement des primes d’assurance, suite au manque de boulot dû à
la mise à la retraite des navettes spatiales. Forcément. Moins de fusées, moins
de salaire.
Firefighters and
paramedics from NASA protest against their pay cut
Undoubtedly. It’s go wrong in NASA. The Transport Workers
Union, which represents 90 fire-rescue workers at Kennedy Space Center, has
launched an informational picket at the center’s south gate on State Road 3. The
picketers want to bring attention to a proposed doubling of insurance premiums
and a 20-percent cut in salary and retirement benefits for the firefighters,
paramedics and inspectors at KSC. The wages were protected for the first year
of the contract, but the government contractor for whom they work has proposed
the cuts in a contract that begins in December. That company, G4S Government
Solutions, which was formerly known as Wackenhut, began negotiations in March
and insisted it could not make a profit without severe wage reductions and
insurance premium increases.
“It’s unfair for them to claim, after underbidding their
competitors, that they now need to make these cuts in order to make a profit,”
said on Florida Today, Kevin Smith,
president of Transport Workers Union Local 525, which represents the workers. Susan
Pitcher, executive assistant at G4S Government Solutions, said the company
could not comment while negotiations are in progress.
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