Now French bus and tram drivers turn up to work in skirts
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 6:30 pm
https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/economi ... 1497976294
BTW, this story is in French, so here is a rough translation, courtesy of Google.
They want to work in Bermuda when the temperatures are scorching. Their leadership will not. In Nantes, the drivers CFDT of the SEMITAN protested this Tuesday by wearing a skirt.
They are ready to do anything to make themselves heard. Six CFDT drivers from SEMITAN came to work in skirts on Tuesday. They demand the right to drive their buses in bermuda when the mercury exceeds 30 degrees. Their leadership refuses. " In times heatwave we reach temperatures close to 50 degrees behind our windscreens. And as we do not have air conditioning in our bus, it's unbearable. I lya a form of discrimination. The conductor can put a Skirt, not the men, " said Gabriel Magner, CFDT manager at SEMITAN.
BTW, this story is in French, so here is a rough translation, courtesy of Google.
They want to work in Bermuda when the temperatures are scorching. Their leadership will not. In Nantes, the drivers CFDT of the SEMITAN protested this Tuesday by wearing a skirt.
They are ready to do anything to make themselves heard. Six CFDT drivers from SEMITAN came to work in skirts on Tuesday. They demand the right to drive their buses in bermuda when the mercury exceeds 30 degrees. Their leadership refuses. " In times heatwave we reach temperatures close to 50 degrees behind our windscreens. And as we do not have air conditioning in our bus, it's unbearable. I lya a form of discrimination. The conductor can put a Skirt, not the men, " said Gabriel Magner, CFDT manager at SEMITAN.