A dose of Pfizer’s vaccine in a syringe. (drawing) – Al Seib / Shutterstock / SIPA
During his televised address this Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron promised a “specific strategy” of vaccination for “professions most exposed to the virus”. A strategy that many trades have been calling for several weeks.
Thus, if the police and teachers must soon have access to priority doses, other professions hope to be heard by the government, reports the HuffPost. For Laurent Berger, national secretary of the CFDT, “second line employees” must be among the people to be vaccinated as a priority against Covid-19.
The transport sector is pushing
This would therefore concern, among others, employees in the agri-food sector, mass distribution, retail businesses, as well as waste collection agents. At the same time, the director general of Suez, Bertrand Camus, asked the Prime Minister to put garbage collectors and agents of the water and energy services on the priority list.
Several FO federations in the transport sector also hope that the drivers of buses, taxis, trucks, ambulances, ships and planes can be vaccinated quickly against the coronavirus. “They can be locked in closed places for several hours sometimes with 500 passengers”, argued the unions.
The Unsa union of the RATP, for its part, wants agents in contact with the public to be vaccinated as soon as possible. Since the speech by the Head of State, the government has not yet specified which professions will benefit from doses of vaccines as a priority.